Compelled - English meaning

Compelled – definitions in English dictionary

verb
Force or oblige (someone) to do something.
Usage examples:
A sense of duty compelled harry to answer her questions
Synonims:
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adjective
Having to do something, because you are forced to or feel it is necessary
Usage examples:
[ + to infinitive ] he felt compelled to report the incident.

Compelled translation into English

Compelled: translate from English into Chinese

被迫

Compelled: translate from English into Dutch

Gedwongen

Compelled: translate from English into French

Contraint

Compelled: translate from English into German

Gezwungen

Compelled: translate from English into Hindi

मज़बूर, मजबूर

Compelled: translate from English into Italian

Costretto

Compelled: translate from English into Korean

강요된

Compelled: translate from English into Russian

Вынужденный

Compelled: translate from English into Spanish

Obligado

Word origin

late Middle English: from Latin compellere, from com- ‘together’ + pellere ‘drive’.

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Compelled – similar words

compellably

adjective
(of a witness) able to be made to attend court or give evidence.
Usage examples:
He does not wish to attend court in england and is not a compellable witness.

Compellably - all meanings in English

compellable

adjective
(of a witness) able to be made to attend court or give evidence.
Usage examples:
He does not wish to attend court in england and is not a compellable witness.

Compellable - all meanings in English

compel

verb
Force or oblige (someone) to do something.
Usage examples:
A sense of duty compelled harry to answer her questions

verb
To force someone to do something
Usage examples:
At school, we were compelled to wear uniforms, which i hated.

Compel - all meanings in English

Compelled synonims

drive

verb
Operate and control the direction and speed of a motor vehicle.
Usage examples:
He got into his car and drove off

noun
(of a fact or feeling) compel (someone) to act in a particular way, especially one that is considered undesirable or inappropriate.
Usage examples:
He was driven by ambition

verb
To travel in a motor vehicle, esp. as the person who operates it
Usage examples:
[ t ] we drove 40 miles to visit my aunt., [ i ] she drove through pennsylvania to ohio., [ i ] she…

Drive - all meanings in English

force

noun
Strength or energy as an attribute of physical action or movement.
Usage examples:
He was thrown backwards by the force of the explosion

verb
Make a way through or into by physical strength; break open by force.
Usage examples:
The back door of the bank was forced

noun
A waterfall.
Usage examples:
At the village of west burton, two miles distant, is a fine force

Force - all meanings in English

impel

verb
Drive, force, or urge (someone) to do something.
Usage examples:
Financial difficulties impelled him to desperate measures

verb
To force someone to do something
Usage examples:
[ + to infinitive ] when i see them eating, i feel impelled to eat, too.

Impel - all meanings in English

oblige

verb
Make (someone) legally or morally bound to do something.
Usage examples:
Doctors are obliged by law to keep patients alive while there is a chance of recovery

Oblige - all meanings in English

press

verb
Move or cause to move into a position of contact with something by exerting continuous physical force.
Usage examples:
He pressed his face to the glass

noun
A device for applying pressure to something in order to flatten or shape it or to extract juice or oil.
Usage examples:
A flower press

noun
A forcible enlistment of men, especially for the navy.
Usage examples:
Any english-speaking, able-bodied, man on leave in a port might find himself swept up in the press.

Press - all meanings in English

pressure

noun
Continuous physical force exerted on or against an object by something in contact with it.
Usage examples:
The gate was buckling under the pressure of the crowd outside

verb
Attempt to persuade or coerce (someone) into doing something.
Usage examples:
It might be possible to pressure him into resigning

Pressure - all meanings in English

push

verb
Exert force on (someone or something) in order to move them away from oneself.
Usage examples:
She pushed her glass towards him

noun
An act of pushing someone or something in order to move them away from oneself.
Usage examples:
He closed the door with a push

verb
Move with force, "he pushed the table into a corner"

Push - all meanings in English

require

verb
Need for a particular purpose.
Usage examples:
Three patients required operations

Require - all meanings in English

urge

verb
Try earnestly or persistently to persuade (someone) to do something.
Usage examples:
He urged her to come and stay with us

noun
A strong desire or impulse.
Usage examples:
He felt the urge to giggle

verb
To encourage someone strongly to do something or to ask that something be done
Usage examples:
Party leaders urged her to run for congress., a human/natural urge, sometimes i get an urge to go s…

Urge - all meanings in English

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