COMPEL meaning: Force someone to do something

We found 33 dictionaries that define the word Compel:

General (25 matching dictionaries)

compel: Merriam-Webster
compel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
compel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
compel: Collins English Dictionary
compel: Vocabulary.com
Compel, compel: Wordnik
compel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
compel: Wiktionary
compel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
compel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
compel: Infoplease Dictionary
compel: Dictionary.com
compel: Online Etymology Dictionary
compel: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Compel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
compel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
compel: Rhymezone
compel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
compel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
compel: FreeDictionary.org
compel: Mnemonic Dictionary
compel: TheFreeDictionary.com
compel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)

compel: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
compel: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)

Compel: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
Compel: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (compel)

▸ verb:  (transitive, archaic, literally) To drive together, round up.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To overpower; to subdue.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To force, constrain or coerce.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To exact, extort, (make) produce by force.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To gather or unite in a crowd or company.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To call forth; to summon.

Similar:

oblige, obligate, require, command, coact, compulse, coagment, convocate, concuss, accoil, more...

Opposite:

repel, deter, avert

Types:

force, coerce, persuade, entice, lure, entrap, more...

Phrases:

Motion to compel, compel compliance, compel by violent measures, compel her, compel by force, more...

Adjectives:

last, less, latter, necessary, more, present, first, french, strong, whole, short

Colors:

red, crimson, scarlet, ruby, burgundy, more...