3.3.3.5 Compel
Use this domain for words related to compelling someone to do something--to cause or force someone to do something that they do not want to do.
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(1) What words refer to forcing someone to do something?
Example words: compel, blackmail, browbeat, bully (v), coerce, constrain, drive, force someone to do something, use force, force something on, insist, impel, impose your will on, make someone do something, oblige, press, pressure, put pressure on, push, use strong-arm tactics, use strong-arm methods, under duress, be breathing down someone's neck
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(2) What words refer to a situation forcing someone to do something?
Example words: force, make someone do something, drive, compel someone to do something, leave someone with no choice, leave someone with no option, be condemned to
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(3) What words refer to forcing someone to accept something?
Example words: force something on, impose, inflict something on
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(4) What words refer to the act of forcing someone to do something?
Example words: compulsion
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(5) What words describe something that someone is forced to do?
Example words: forcible (eviction), forcibly, compulsory (education)
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(6) What words refer to something someone does in order to force someone to do something?
Example words: coercion, pressure, high-pressure tactics, strong-arm tactics
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(7) What words refer to someone who forces people to do things?
Example words: bully
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(8) What words describe someone who forces people to do things?
Example words: bossy, coercive, pushy