Definition of compel

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Compel (v. t.) To take by force or violence; to seize; to exact; to extort.

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Coerce :: Coerce (v. t.) To compel or enforce; as, to coerce obedience..
Interpleader :: Interpleader (n.) A proceeding devised to enable a person, of whom the same debt, duty, or thing is claimed adversely by two or more parties, to compel them to litigate the right or title between themselves, and thereby to relieve himself from the suits which they might otherwise bring against him..
Giantship :: Giantship (n.) The state, personality, or character, of a giant; -- a compellation for a giant..
Compel :: Compel (v. t.) To gather or unite in a crowd or company.
Incoercible :: Incoercible (a.) Not to be coerced; incapable of being compelled or forced.
Positive :: Positive (a.) Hence: Not admitting of any doubt, condition, qualification, or discretion; not dependent on circumstances or probabilities; not speculative; compelling assent or obedience; peremptory; indisputable; decisive; as, positive instructions; positive truth; positive proof..
Perforce :: Perforce (v. t.) To force; to compel.
Compellation :: Compellation (n.) Style of address or salutation; an appellation.
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..
Coerce :: Coerce (v. t.) To compel or constrain to any action; as, to coerce a man to vote for a certain candidate..
Incoacted :: Incoacted (a.) Not compelled; unconstrained.
Enforced :: Enforced (a.) Compelled; forced; not voluntary.
Corner :: Corner (n.) The state of things produced by a combination of persons, who buy up the whole or the available part of any stock or species of property, which compels those who need such stock or property to buy of them at their own price; as, a corner in a railway stock..
Banish :: Banish (v. t.) To drive away; to compel to depart; to dispel.
Chase :: Chase (v. t.) To follow as if to catch; to pursue; to compel to move on; to drive by following; to cause to fly; -- often with away or off; as, to chase the hens away..
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..
Compellable :: Compellable (a.) Capable of being compelled or constrained.
Compel :: Compel (v. t.) To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.
Dragoon :: Dragoon (v. t.) To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to persecute.
Distrain :: Distrain (v. t.) To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress, torment, or afflict..
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