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Compeller :: Compeller (n.) One who compels or constrains.

Make :: Make (v. t.) To require; to constrain; to compel; to force; to cause; to occasion; -- followed by a noun or pronoun and infinitive.

Constrain :: Constrain (v. t.) To hold back by force; to restrain; to repress.

Constraintive :: Constraintive (a.) Constraining; compulsory.

Uneasy :: Uneasy (a.) Not easy in manner; constrained; stiff; awkward; not graceful; as, an uneasy deportment..

Oblige :: Oblige (v. t.) To constrain by physical, moral, or legal force; to put under obligation to do or forbear something..

Constrained :: Constrained (imp. & p. p.) of Constrai.

Abandon :: Abandon (n.) A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.

Machine :: Machine (n.) In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc.; especially, a construction, more or less complex, consisting of a combination of moving parts, or simple mechanical elements, as wheels, levers, cams, etc., with their supports and connecting framework, calculated to

Bound :: Bound (p. p. & a.) Constrained or compelled; destined; certain; -- followed by the infinitive; as, he is bound to succeed; he is bound to fail..

Strait-laced :: Strait-laced (a.) Restricted; stiff; constrained.

Constrainable :: Constrainable (a.) Capable of being constrained; liable to constraint, or to restraint..

Loose :: Loose (superl.) Free from constraint or obligation; not bound by duty, habit, etc. ; -- with from or of..

Out :: Out (a.) Beyond the limits of concealment, confinement, privacy, constraint, etc., actual of figurative; hence, not in concealment, constraint, etc., in, or into, a state of freedom, openness, disclosure, publicity, etc.; as, the sun shines out; he laughed out, to be out at the elbows; the secret has leaked out, or is out; the disease broke out on his face; the book is out..

Efforce :: Efforce (v. t.) To force; to constrain; to compel to yield.

Astrict :: Astrict (v. t.) To bind; to constrain; to restrict; to limit.

Constrain :: Constrain (v. t.) To violate; to ravish.

Drive :: Drive (v. t.) To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain; to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive a person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of circumstances, by argument, and the like..

Franchise :: Franchise (a.) Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.

Duress :: Duress (n.) Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty.

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