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Meaning coerce meaning

What does coerce mean?
Definitions in simple English

coerce Verb

— If you coerces someone into doing something, you use power to make them do it, though they may not want to. She was coerced into giving the bully her lunch money.

coerce

— verb (= squeeze, pressure, force) 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 coerce synonyms

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Compel

Conjugation coerce conjugation

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His words made his intention to coerce justice unmistakable.
I'm gonna say you're running a bogus investigation and are trying to coerce a private citizen into becoming a federal witness.
Did he coerce her?
They didn't try to coerce you?
However, Mr. Stamphill cannot coerce you into testifying against yourself.
Then, coerce him into having phone sex with me, then I would ask him if he thinks we have a future, and then I'd probably just cry until he hung up on me.
If I can coerce a focus group to say that a picture of an anorexic model bottle-feeding two large men in diapers makes them want to buy a pair of jeans, then I've done my job.
However you pleaded guilty to kidnapping two young ladies of good family and attempting to coerce them into marriage.
It's like on one hand, they give me the bike of my dreams. But on the other, they coerce Ali, they turn her against me, and then they threaten to charge me with assault.
And coerce them into doing whatever she needed.
Unless Whitney can coerce the baseball team, I think I can squeeze you in.
Its entire purpose is to coerce others.
You didn't coerce anyone.
We've come to the point where you coerce me into cooperating.
Tsar Nicholas wants to coerce me into fighting a war that I don't want to fight and that I must not fight!
And they didn't try to coerce you?
In running her operation, she would get dirt on people. Powerful, important people. And coerce them into doing whatever she needed.
Don't tell me. We've come to the point where you coerce me into cooperating.
Jack, if you intend to physically coerce the president of the United States.
He'd plant evidence and coerce a confession.
You should know that the king himself has no mind to coerce you.
You can't coerce people into treating their animals.
So I don't actually animate objects, I coerce their inner life out of them.
And you can't even coerce a woman into having sex. without being brought up on charges.
We can coerce you to our will, but it's time-consuming and risks.
You tried to coerce your victim to lie.
Never, ever, ever did we send the message. directly, indirectly or otherwise that it is acceptable procedure. to physically coerce suspects or witnesses.
I know, because if you had, you wouldn't be trying to coerce me into confessing.
You should know that the King himself has no mind to coerce you.
No, But You Would Try To Coerce Girl Not Too Out With Me In The First Place.
They can deceive. They cannot coerce.
They'd coerce civilians to do the work for 'em.
Did you coerce Cuthbert into murdering Jack?
Did he ever coerce you into participating In anything that made you feel uncomfortable By threatening to fire or, say, demote you?

News and current affairs

Far from being willing to coerce people to live in a certain way, German conservatives seek a politics that recognizes limits - the limits of the state, the market, and the individual.
The US Congress, for example, defines terrorism as including a motive to coerce or intimidate a population or influence a government.
It is a civil war within Islam between a majority of normal people and a small minority who want to coerce others into a accepting a highly ideological and politicized version of their religion.
Ultimately, power remains the ability to coerce.
As a result, Russia's capacity to attract others, if not to coerce and pay them, will continue to decline.
By trying to coerce them with fines?
No individual is strong enough to coerce everyone else.
Even if we can coerce traditional debt-free savers to spend, it is unlikely that there are enough of them in Las Vegas.
Japan has also gained international credibility for the fact that, for seven decades, its diplomacy has not once sought to coerce or intimidate any other country with threats of military force.
But the new image of single mothers - and of single motherhood - does show that it is getting harder - if not almost impossible - to coerce women by trying to fix upon them the scarlet letter.
So he had to coerce his party into accepting a deal full of spending cuts and devoid of tax increases.
The results were then regularly used behind the scenes to bully, intimidate, and coerce targets.

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