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Violence :: Violence (v. t.) To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel..

Press :: Press (v.) To urge, or act upon, with force, as weight; to act upon by pushing or thrusting, in distinction from pulling; to crowd or compel by a gradual and continued exertion; to bear upon; to squeeze; to compress; as, we press the ground with the feet when we walk; we press the couch on which we repose; we press substances with the hands, fingers, or arms; we are pressed in a crowd..

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

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..

Compulsive :: Compulsive (a.) Having power to compel; exercising or applying compulsion.

Adact :: Adact (v. t.) To compel; to drive.

Compelled :: Compelled (imp. & p. p.) of Compe.

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

Coerce :: Coerce (v. t.) To compel or enforce; as, to coerce obedience..

Press :: Press (v.) To exercise very powerful or irresistible influence upon or over; to constrain; to force; to compel.

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..

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..

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..

Necessitate :: Necessitate (v. t.) To reduce to the necessity of; to force; to compel.

Force :: Force (n.) To constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible; to compel by physical, moral, or intellectual means; to coerce; as, masters force slaves to labor..

Constrain :: Constrain (v. t.) To compel; to force; to necessitate; to oblige.

Coactive :: Coactive (a.) Serving to compel or constrain; compulsory; restrictive.

Banish :: Banish (v. t.) To drive away; to compel to depart; to dispel.

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

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