Definition of compel

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Compel (v. t.) To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force..

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Convincingly :: Convincingly (adv.) in a convincing manner; in a manner to compel assent.
Besiege :: Besiege (v. t.) To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset..
Dragoon :: Dragoon (v. t.) To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to persecute.
Compulsive :: Compulsive (a.) Having power to compel; exercising or applying compulsion.
Subjugation :: Subjugate (v. t.) To subdue, and bring under the yoke of power or dominion; to conquer by force, and compel to submit to the government or absolute control of another; to vanquish..
Siege :: Siege (n.) The sitting of an army around or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; the surrounding or investing of a place by an army, and approaching it by passages and advanced works, which cover the besiegers from the enemy's fire. See the Note under Blockade..
Strike :: Strike (v. i.) To quit work in order to compel an increase, or prevent a reduction, of wages..
Pulsive :: Pulsive (a.) Tending to compel; compulsory.
Milk :: Milk (v. t.) To draw anything from, as if by milking; to compel to yield profit or advantage; to plunder..
Compulsatory :: Compulsatory (a.) Operating with force; compelling; forcing; constraining; resulting from, or enforced by, compulsion..
Rusticate :: Rusticate (v. t.) To require or compel to reside in the country; to banish or send away temporarily; to impose rustication on.
Make :: Make (v. t.) To require; to constrain; to compel; to force; to cause; to occasion; -- followed by a noun or pronoun and infinitive.
Driver :: Driver (n.) One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward..
Compellably :: Compellably (adv.) By compulsion.
Efforce :: Efforce (v. t.) To force; to constrain; to compel to yield.
Compellation :: Compellation (n.) Style of address or salutation; an appellation.
Compellatory :: Compellatory (a.) Serving to compel; compulsory.
Adact :: Adact (v. t.) To compel; to drive.
Exact :: Exact (a.) To demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a right; to enforce the payment of, or a yielding of; to compel to yield or to furnish; hence, to wrest, as a fee or reward when none is due; -- followed by from or of before the one subjected to exaction; as, to exact tribute, fees, obedience, etc., from or of some one..
Banish :: Banish (v. t.) To drive away; to compel to depart; to dispel.
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