Usually means: Unable to refrain from action.
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▸ verb:  Alternative form of can't help. [(idiomatic) Be unable to avoid a situation, or stop something from happening.]

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inevitable, unavoidable, uncontrollable, compel, compelled to, curably, haunting, unshakeably, avoidably, boundlessly, more...

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inevitable, unavoidable, uncontrollable, compel, compelled to, curably, haunting, unshakeably, avoidably, boundlessly, more...

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