tr.v. coerced, coercing, coerces
MEANING ::
1. To force to act or think in a certain way by use of pressure, threats, or intimidation;
compel.
2. To dominate, restrain, or control forcibly: coerced the strikers into compliance.
3. To bring about by force or threat: efforts to coerce agreement.
4. To cause to do through pressure or necessity,by physical, moral or intellectual means
5. To force (a person into doing something).
COERCION
EXAMPLE SENTENCES OF THE GIVEN WORD
1. She forced(coerced) him to take a job in the city.
2. A leader does n't coerce people into change that they resist.
3. Coerce women into a hospital birth
4. We are not forced; we are not coerced.
5. Jane did everything she could to avoid this marriage, but was physically coerced.
6. The parsons in both villages were also coerced into promising to reduce by half the
income they took from tithes.
7. Our youngsters are almost coerced into growing up far too fast and far too soon by
some of the pressures and policies around them.
8. Coerce governments for the same purposes.
9. Coerced into prostitution.
10. Coerce out of a uk news agency.
Synonyms
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beset, browbeat, bulldoze, bully, concuss, constrain, cow, dragoon, drive, force, high pressure, hinder,
impel, intimidate, lean on, make, make an offer they can't refuse, menace, oblige, pressurize, push, put the squeeze on, repress, restrict, shotgun, strong-arm, suppress, terrorize, threaten, twist one's arm, urge
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Derived terms