Synonyms for compel

Grammar : Verb

Spell : kuhm-pel

Phonetic Transcription : kəmˈpɛl

Top 10 synonyms for compel

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Définition of compel

Origin : mid-14c., from Old French compellir, from Latin compellere "to drive together, drive to one place" (of cattle), "to force or compel" (of persons), from com- "together" (see com-) + pellere "to drive" (see pulse (n.1)). Related: Compelled; compelling.

verb force to act

Example sentences :

Send an army into Attica, and compel the Athenians to withdraw their forces from Potidaea.
Extract from : « Stories from Thucydides » by H. L. Havell

Will you then ostracize the South and compel the abolition of slavery?
Extract from : « Slavery Ordained of God » by Rev. Fred A. Ross, D.D.

If he does not mind being whipped, there is nothing to compel him to work for his master.
Extract from : « Freeland » by Theodor Hertzka

No one shall ever compel me to paint a picture again with so much labour.
Extract from : « Albert Durer » by T. Sturge Moore

These laws surround us and compel us; sometimes they wound us.
Extract from : « Initiation into Philosophy » by Emile Faguet

Do not you, who blame my friends for endeavouring to compel me, yourself seek to compel.
Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson

In Washington a House committee was striving still to compel arbitration.
Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole

You say too much; and compel me to tell you that you merit my highest esteem.
Extract from : « The Politician Out-Witted » by Samuel Low

Her unparallel'd rudeness shall not compel me to leave the house, till I please.
Extract from : « The Politician Out-Witted » by Samuel Low

The resolution to which he had come was to compel Clotilde to give her word.
Extract from : « Doctor Pascal » by Emile Zola

Antonyms for compel

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