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Press :: Press (v. i.) To urge with vehemence or importunity; to exert a strong or compelling influence; as, an argument presses upon the judgment..

Compel :: Compel (v. t.) To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.

Bayonet :: Bayonet (v. t.) To compel or drive by the bayonet.

Compellably :: Compellably (adv.) By compulsion.

Compel :: 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..

Strike :: Strike (v. i.) To quit work in order to compel an increase, or prevent a reduction, of wages..

Disgorge :: Disgorge (v. t.) To give up unwillingly as what one has wrongfully seized and appropriated; to make restitution of; to surrender; as, he was compelled to disgorge his ill-gotten gains..

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..

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..

Dragoon :: Dragoon (v. t.) To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to persecute.

Rusticate :: Rusticate (v. t.) To require or compel to reside in the country; to banish or send away temporarily; to impose rustication on.

Enforce :: Enforce (v. t.) To put force upon; to force; to constrain; to compel; as, to enforce obedience to commands..

Obligate :: Obligate (v. t.) To bind or firmly hold to an act; to compel; to constrain; to bind to any act of duty or courtesy by a formal pledge.

Force :: Force (n.) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none.

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

Compel :: Compel (v. t.) To call forth; to summon.

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..

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..

Cloud-compeller :: Cloud-compeller (n.) Cloud-gatherer; -- an epithet applied to Zeus.

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..

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