Coerce

Quick meaning: Coerce is a verb meaning (transitive) To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.

Meaning

(transitive) To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in an attempt to compel one to act against their will.
2. (transitive, computing) To force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type.

Example Sentences

They coerced their children into going to the country park.

A woman who freely engages in any of these activities, or who rejects anti-porn dogma, is thought to be coerced, brainwashed, an apologist of the patriarchy or a "social man." A woman who agrees that she has been coerced into one of these activities will be honored by anti-porners. The opinions of the rest of us are routinely discounted.

Word Forms

• coerces
• coercing
• coerced

Synonyms for coerce

Depending on context, synonyms include compel, bully, dragoon, bludgeon, hustle, pressure.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include force, pressure, coercive, compel, constrain, enforce.

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