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Synonyms for coerce
koʊˈɜrsco·erce
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Wiktionary
coerceverb
coerceverb
To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
coerceverb
to use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in attempt to compel one to act against his will.
coerceverb
to force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type.
English Synonyms and Antonyms
coerce
To compel one to an act is to secure its performance by the use of irresistible physical or moral force. Force implies primarily an actual physical process, absolutely subduing all resistance. Coerce implies the actual or potential use of so much force as may be necessary to secure the surrender of the will; the American secessionists contended that the Federal government had no right to coerce a State. Constrain implies the yielding of judgment and will, and in some cases of inclination or affection, to an overmastering power; as, "the love of Christ constraineth us," 2 Cor. v, 14. Compare DRIVE; INFLUENCE.
See synonyms for HINDER.
Synonyms:
compel, constrain, drive, force, make, necessitate, obligePreposition:
The soldiers were compelled to desertion: preferably with the infinitive, compelled to desert.
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Princeton's WordNet
coerce, hale, squeeze, pressure, forceverb
to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"
"He squeezed her for information"
Synonyms:
draw, storm, blackjack, pressure, crush, thrust, rack, ram, hale, press, blackmail, twitch, gouge, tweet, embrace, impel, force, shove, twinge, compress, hug, drive, constrict, cart, contract, extort, stuff, squeeze, squash, compact, pinch, drag, wring, mash, push, bosom, wedge, squelch, pull, haul
Dictionary of English Synonymes
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
coerceverb
Synonyms:
constrain, compel, intimidate, restrain
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#132 | make | |
#272 | check | |
#422 | press | |
#510 | cart | |
#737 | drive | |
#992 | stuff | |
#1022 | force | |
#1204 | contract | |
#1608 | pressure | |
#3048 | compact | |
#3213 | ram | |
#3350 | draw | |
#3413 | storm | |
#3587 | push | |
#3810 | pull | |
#4171 | blackjack | |
#4680 | rack | |
#6613 | drag | |
#10795 | embrace | |
#11614 | squash | |
#12398 | crush | |
#12572 | thrust | |
#13411 | wedge | |
#13626 | hale | |
#13787 | squeeze | |
#13972 | hug | |
#14302 | haul | |
#17127 | pinch | |
#17901 | inhibit | |
#19529 | compress | |
#20204 | mash | |
#20516 | bully | |
#25684 | compel | |
#28948 | shove | |
#30094 | restrain | |
#31363 | constrain | |
#32051 | bosom | |
#34171 | blackmail | |
#35877 | twitch | |
#36343 | confine | |
#36830 | counteract | |
#37463 | intimidate | |
#39203 | necessitate | |
#44733 | oblige | |
#45638 | dragoon | |
#48826 | coerce | |
#60356 | gouge | |
#62045 | squelch | |
#69333 | wring | |
#73889 | tweet | |
#91682 | extort | |
#104149 | twinge | |
#108145 | impel | |
#108267 | constrict |
How to use coerce in a sentence?
I think it is hypocritical, it’s unequal treatment before the law. The Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act is being used to coerce businesses to participate in events that violate their consciences.
I don't see how a static cross can coerce anybody into a state religion, where will this end ?
Most Russians see U.S. relations as a fundamental source of the relationship's problems, in their view, Washington grew too ambitious in the aftermath of the Cold War. It attempted to remake Russia and remake the world according to American preferences and this from the Russian point of view proved to be disastrous.It helped to produce the collapse of the Russian state during the 1990s. It led to destabilizing wars in the Middle East and Central Asia. It produced a long series of punitive sanctions by the U.S. meant to coerce Moscow into submission.And rather than pursuing Gorbachev's bold vision of a common European home that included Russia in the broad security architecture, the U.S. opted to make NATO the foundation for European security, to bring NATO closer to Russia's borders.
Russia has now played most of its escalatory cards, and doesn't have many tools left for resolving this crisis in its favor. The nuclear alert seems like more an act of frustration than a calculated tactical move, if the nuclear alert was intended to coerce the United States and Europe into tempering economic sanctions or abandoning Ukraine, it failed. If anything, it has served to further inflame world opinion against Russia.
ISIS has made Al Qaeda seem less radical, less extreme, only because Al Qaeda will not employ the barbaric tactics that ISIS does to coerce and win loyalty through fear. Yet they seek the same goal, the problem with focusing on just ISIS or just Al Qaeda is that the U.S. has missed the real enemy—the Salafi-jihadi movement—of which Al Qaeda and ISIS are two global organizations.
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