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

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..

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

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..

Compellative :: Compellative (n.) The name by which a person is addressed; an appellative.

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

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..

Conviction :: Conviction (n.) The act of convincing of error, or of compelling the admission of a truth; confutation..

Cogent :: Cogent (p. a.) Compelling, in a physical sense; powerful..

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

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..

Incoercible :: Incoercible (a.) Not to be coerced; incapable of being compelled or forced.

Silence :: Silence (v. t.) To compel to silence; to cause to be still; to still; to hush.

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..

Swim :: Swim (v. t.) To cause or compel to swim; to make to float; as, to swim a horse across a river..

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

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..

Compel :: Compel (v. i.) To make one yield or submit.

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..

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

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