Found 3 items, similar to compelling.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: compel
forsir, memaksakan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: compelling
compelling
See
compel
compelling
adj 1: driving or forcing;
“compelling ambition”
2: tending to persuade by forcefulness of argument;
“new and
compelling evidence”
compel
v 1: force or compel somebody to do something;
“We compel all
students to fill out this form” [syn:
oblige,
obligate]
2: make someone do something [syn:
command,
require]
[also:
compelling,
compelled]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Compelling
Compel
\Com*pel"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Compelled; p. pr. & vb.
n.
Compelling.] [L. compellere, compulsum, to drive
together, to compel, urge; com- + pellere to drive: cf. OF.
compellir. See
Pulse.]
1. To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to
constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical
or moral force.
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Wolsey . . . compelled the people to pay up the
whole subsidy at once. --Hallam.
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And they compel one Simon . . . to bear his cross.
--Mark xv. 21.
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2. To take by force or violence; to seize; to exact; to
extort. [R.]
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Commissions, which compel from each
The sixth part of his substance. --Shak.
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3. To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.
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Easy sleep their weary limbs compelled. --Dryden.
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I compel all creatures to my will. --Tennyson.
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4. To gather or unite in a crowd or company. [A Latinism]
“In one troop compelled.” --Dryden.
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5. To call forth; to summon. [Obs.] --Chapman.
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She had this knight from far compelled. --Spenser.
Syn: To force; constrain; oblige; necessitate; coerce. See
Coerce.
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