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coerce (verb)

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  • coerce — ► VERB ▪ persuade (an unwilling person) to do something by using force or threats. DERIVATIVES coercion noun coercive adjective. ORIGIN Latin coercere restrain …   English terms dictionary

  • coerce — co·erce /kō ərs/ vt co·erced, co·erc·ing: to subject (a person) to coercion compare importune, solicit Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …   Law dictionary

  • coerce — verb Coerce is used with these nouns as the object: ↑confession, ↑testimony …   Collocations dictionary

  • coerce — verb (T) to force someone to do something they do not want to do by threatening them: coerce sb into doing sth: The rebels coerced the villagers into hiding them from the army …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • coerce — verb a) To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb. b) to use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in attempt to compel one to act against his will. Syn: compel …   Wiktionary

  • coerce — verb he was coerced into giving evidence Syn: pressure, pressurize, press, push, constrain; force, compel, oblige, browbeat, bludgeon, bully, threaten, intimidate, dragoon, twist someone s arm; informal railroad, squeeze, lean on …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • coerce — verb Syn: pressure, press, push, constrain, force, compel, oblige, browbeat, bully, threaten, intimidate, dragoon, twist someone s arm; informal railroad, steamroller, lean on …   Synonyms and antonyms dictionary

  • coerce — transitive verb (coerced; coercing) Etymology: Middle English cohercen, from Anglo French *cohercer Latin coercēre, from co + arcēre to shut up, enclose more at ark Date: 15th century 1. to restrain or dominate by force …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • coerce — [[t]koʊɜ͟ː(r)s[/t]] coerces, coercing, coerced VERB If you coerce someone into doing something, you make them do it, although they do not want to. [FORMAL] [V n into ing/n] Potter had argued that the government coerced him into pleading guilty …   English dictionary

  • coerce — UK [kəʊˈɜː(r)s] / US [koʊˈɜrs] verb [transitive] Word forms coerce : present tense I/you/we/they coerce he/she/it coerces present participle coercing past tense coerced past participle coerced to make someone do something by using force or… …   English dictionary

  • coerce — [17] The underlying etymological meaning of coerce is ‘restraining’ or ‘confining’. It comes from the Latin compound verb coercēre ‘constrain’, which was formed from the prefix co ‘together’ and the verb arcēre ‘shut up, ward off’ (possibly a… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

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