coerce

Meaning

1. To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
2. To use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in an attempt to compel one to act against their will.
3. To force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type.

Synonyms

force

compel

press

constrain

pressure

oblige

impose

intimidate

browbeat

bully

hale

repress

dragoon

oppress

impel

drive

terrorize

make

enforce

menace

necessitate

bludgeon

push

subdue

suppress

bulldoze

threaten

thrust

tyrannize

assert

chastise

mandate

require

impose upon

hound

squeeze

hector

take by force

harass

harry

quell

ache

place under duress

apply

bear

🐻

bear down on

besiege

bluff

boss

calender

catch up with

clamp

🗜️

compulsion

cow

🐮

demand

domineer

forced

forcible

ill-use

imperative

inflict

insist on

jam

obligate

persecute

press on

pressurise

pressurize

prompt

put on

reduce

request

restrain

run down

sandbag

scold

tax

will

wring

trample underfoot

push into

to effect by compulsion

put under restraint

Pronounced as (IPA)

/koʊˈɝs/

Etymology

From Latin coercere (“to surround, encompass, restrain, control, curb”), from co- (“together”) + arcere (“to inclose, confine, keep off”); see arcade, arcane, ark.