Word Meanings - COERCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb. Burke. Punishments are manifold, that they may coerce this profligate sort. Ayliffe. 2. To compel or constrain to any action; as, to coerce a man to vote for a certain

Additional info about word: COERCE

1. To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb. Burke. Punishments are manifold, that they may coerce this profligate sort. Ayliffe. 2. To compel or constrain to any action; as, to coerce a man to vote for a certain candidate. 3. To compel or enforce; as, to coerce obedience. Syn. -- To Coerce, Compel. To compel denotes to urge on by force which cannot be resisted. The term aplies equally to physical and moral force; as, compelled by hunger; compelled adverse circumstances; compelled by parental affection. Coerce had at first only the negative sense of checking or restraining by force; as, to coerce a bad man by punishments or a prisoner with fetters. It has now gained a positive sense., viz., that of driving a person into the performance of some act which is required of him by another; as, to coerce a man to sign a contract; to coerce obedience. In this sense , coerce differs but little from compel, and yet there is a distinction between them. Coercion is usually acomplished by indirect means, as threats and intimidation, physical force being more rarely employed in coercing.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COERCE)

• Compel
• Force
• oblige
• drive
• constrain
• necessitate
• make
• coerce
• bind
• Control
• curb
• moderate
• repress
• guide
• regulate
• restrain
• manage
• administer
• govern
• Oblige
• force
• benefit
• favor
• accommodate
• gratify
• Restrain
• Check
• hinder
• limit
• confine
• restrict
• withhold
• prohibit
• narrow
• circumscribe
• reduce

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of COERCE)

• Loose
• liberate
• instigate
• accelerate
• license
• indulge
• allow
• abet
• Neglect
• abandon
• berate
• free
• mismanage
• misconduct

Related words: (words related to COERCE)

• CHECKWORK
  Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• FAVOR
  Partiality; bias. Bouvier. 9. A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received. 10. pl. (more info) L. favor, fr. favere to be favorable, cf. Skr. bhavaya to further, foster, causative of bhBe.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• LIMITARIAN
  Tending to limit.
• LIMITIVE
  Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
• ALLOWEDLY
  By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
• OBLIGER
  One who, or that which, obliges. Sir H. Wotton.
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• LIMITABLE
  Capable of being limited.
• CONTROLLABLENESS
  Capability of being controlled.
• ALLOW
  allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend
• RESTRICT
  Restricted.
• DRIVEL
  To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love. Shak. Dryden. (more info) 1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard. 2. Etym:
• DRIVE
  To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. Tomlinson. 7. To pass away; -- said of time. Chaucer. Note: Drive, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent action. It is the reverse of to lead. To drive a body is to move it by
• CHECKREIN
  1. A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein. 2. A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse.
• ALLOWER
  1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
• REPRESSIBLE
  Capable of being repressed.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• SALLOWISH
  Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
• MISGOVERNED
  Ill governed, as a people; ill directed. "Rude, misgoverned hands." Shak.
• UNLIMITED
  1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• DEFORCEOR
  See DEFORCIANT
• MALLOWWORT
  Any plant of the order Malvaceæ.