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compulsion

If you have a compulsion to do something, you really want to do it even though there is no good reason. If someone is under compulsion to do something, they are being forced to do it.

compulsion

an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid he felt a compulsion to babble on about the accident an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will her compulsion to wash her hands repeatedly (= coercion) using force to cause something to occur though pressed into rugby under compulsion I began to enjoy the game they didn't have to use coercion

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  • What words refer to the act of forcing someone to do something?

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Movie subtitles

And what if the compulsion to kill returns?
The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion.
That could prove a very dangerous compulsion. Yes, I suppose so.
Pass away. it's not love really, it's a sentimental complex, it's only a compulsion I want to dominate the girl, to possess her creatively!
From the minute I first laid eyes on it, I was lost, helpless completely caught up in this awful compulsion.
On what compulsion is the oath?
This kind of compulsion that I have to be rude all the time. Do you know what I mean?
The compulsion to preserve their colony.
It's a minor compulsion. I can deal with it if I want to.
What makes it operate, its compulsion for perfection.
Maybe this sense of compulsion. is just what you need.
But discipline for its own sake. or compulsion. I don't think that's good.
If there were no compulsion. I'd be totally lost at times.
It was brutal of your father. but that's not the sort of compulsion I mean.
Work is a compulsion.
How these Spaniards love their moment of truth, this compulsion to die, to drench the ground with their blood.
The mental compulsion.
It was a though some mental compulsion was working on her. She began seeing things.
When you feel a compulsion to repeat the nightmare. don't do it.
I have this terrible compulsion to kidnap it.
The compulsion to get it back was so strong, that he got up and then either phoned you, or went to your house?
Now, dear, tell me, how long have you had this compulsion to be a football player?
It's a compulsion!
Well, there's a compulsion among the lower classes to get money to eat once in a while.
I won't leave her, and gambling's a compulsion.
NARRATOR: Wahb was born with a kind of compulsion. for pushing things over.
Is it some slavery or compulsion?
This is not compulsion.
There is no compulsion.
Hah, no compulsion. You've changed your tune.
It's an irresistible compulsion.
You have this irresistible compulsion.
I have this sick compulsion to tell women how I feel.
Maybe you molest once and never again, but twice, it's a compulsion.

News and current affairs

These saving plans show that there are methods other than outright compulsion to overcome human inertia.
Because these ideologies' claim to be in possession of the ultimate truth is bound to be false, they can be imposed on society only through repression and compulsion.
Or is it subject to a fatal compulsion to repeat the same mistakes, despite the disastrous lessons of the past?
We take the resulting narrative effects for granted: surprise endings, intriguing situations, and a compulsion to read or watch until the finish.
The paradox of our time is the great power of the world's richest countries to do good, but their seeming compulsion to miss every opportunity to do so.
The result of credit compulsion was rather paradoxical.
The first is a compulsion to be the first to establish completely trivial facts about science.
Driven by its compulsion to make war on Iraq at all costs, Washington has shown little inclination to consider the war's long-term impact on countries lying at the periphery of the war zone.
And it failed not only for economic reasons, but also because its internal and external behavior was based on compulsion, not consent.

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