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All coerce synonyms

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verb coerce

  • bully — A bully is someone who uses their strength or power to hurt or frighten other people.
  • intimidate — to make timid; fill with fear.
  • suppress — to put an end to the activities of (a person, body of persons, etc.): to suppress the Communist and certain left-leaning parties.
  • repress — to keep under control, check, or suppress (desires, feelings, actions, tears, etc.).
  • strong-arm — using, involving, or threatening the use of physical force or violence to gain an objective: strong-arm methods.
  • browbeat — If someone tries to browbeat you, they try to force you to do what they want.
  • terrorize — to fill or overcome with terror.
  • hinder — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
  • bulldoze — If people bulldoze something such as a building, they knock it down using a bulldozer.
  • force — physical power or strength possessed by a living being: He used all his force in opening the window.
  • cow — A cow is a large female animal that is kept on farms for its milk. People sometimes refer to male and female animals of this species as cows.
  • urge — to push or force along; impel with force or vigor: to urge the cause along.
  • oblige — to require or constrain, as by law, command, conscience, or force of necessity.
  • make — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
  • drive — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
  • impel — to drive or urge forward; press on; incite or constrain to action.
  • beset — If someone or something is beset by problems or fears, they have many problems or fears which affect them severely.
  • push — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
  • threaten — to utter a threat against; menace: He threatened the boy with a beating.
  • constrain — To constrain someone or something means to limit their development or force them to behave in a particular way.
  • menace — something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health.
  • restrict — to confine or keep within limits, as of space, action, choice, intensity, or quantity.
  • pressurize — to raise the internal atmospheric pressure of to the required or desired level: to pressurize an astronaut's spacesuit before a walk in space.
  • dragoon — (especially formerly) a European cavalryman of a heavily armed troop.
  • concuss — to injure (the brain) by a violent blow, fall, etc
  • lean on — to incline or bend from a vertical position: She leaned out the window.
  • shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
  • twist one's arm — to combine, as two or more strands or threads, by winding together; intertwine.
  • press — to force into service, especially naval or military service; impress.
  • pressure — the exertion of force upon a surface by an object, fluid, etc., in contact with it: the pressure of earth against a wall.
  • compel — If a situation, a rule, or a person compels you to do something, they force you to do it.
  • put the arm on — the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
  • terrorise — to fill or overcome with terror.
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