📖 Definitions of "Compels"
verb
- 1
To drive together, round up
- 2
To overpower; to subdue.
- 3
To force, constrain or coerce.
"Logic compels the wise, while fools feel compelled by emotions."
- 4
To exact, extort, (make) produce by force.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Compels"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| obligeverb | (transitive, intransitive) To do (someone) a service or favour (hence, originally, creating an obligation). |
| requireverb | Naturally to demand (something) as indispensable; to need, to call for as necessary. |
| commandverb | (ambitransitive) To order, give orders; to compel or direct with authority. |
| obligateverb | (transitive) To bind, compel, constrain, or oblige by a social, legal, or moral tie. |
| bindsverb | (intransitive) To tie; to confine by any ligature. |
| boostsverb | (transitive, by extension) To help or encourage (something) to increase or improve; to assist in overcoming obstacles. |
| callsverb | (heading) To reach out with one's voice. |
| coercesverb | (transitive) To use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in an attempt to compel one to act against their will. |
| commitsverb | (transitive) To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault. |
| constrainsverb | (transitive) To keep within close bounds; to confine. |
| directsverb | To manage, control, steer. |
| drivernoun | A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car, truck, bus, train, forklift, etc. |
| drivesverb | To operate a vehicle: |
| encouragesverb | To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit. |
| enforcesverb | To keep up, impose or bring into effect something, not necessarily by force. |
| enjoinsverb | (transitive, chiefly literary) To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge. |
| forcesnoun | (military, only plural) Troops. |
| growsverb | Alternative form of grue (“shudder with fear”). [(intransitive, archaic except Northern England, Scotland) To be frightened; also, to shudder with fear; to quake, to tremble.] |
| impelsverb | (transitive) To drive forward; to propel an object, to provide an impetus for motion or action. |
| imposesverb | (transitive) (figurative) To apply, enforce, or establish (something, often regarded as burdensome as a restriction or tax: see verb, sense 1.2.1) with authority. |
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