All coerce synonyms
co·erce
C c 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.