Constrain - English meaning

verb

Intimidate (someone), typically into doing something, with stern or abusive words.

Usage examples:

A witness is being browbeaten under cross-examination

verb

To ask or demand continually that someone do something

Usage examples:

He objected that mcdonald was browbeating the witness.

verb

To try to force someone to do something by threatening them or persuading them forcefully and unfairly

Usage examples:

Be browbeaten into something/doing something don't be browbeaten into working more hours than you w…

verb

Clear (ground) or destroy (buildings, trees, etc.) with a bulldozer.

Usage examples:

Developers are bulldozing the site

verb

To destroy buildings and make an area flat with a bulldozer

Usage examples:

The township was bulldozed in the 1950s.

verb

To force someone to do something, although they might not want to

Usage examples:

Bulldoze someone into something/doing something she bulldozed her daughter into buying a new dress.…

noun

A person who habitually seeks to harm or intimidate those whom they perceive as vulnerable.

Usage examples:

He is a ranting, domineering bully

verb

Seek to harm, intimidate, or coerce (someone perceived as vulnerable).

Usage examples:

Her 11- year-old son has been constantly bullied at school

adjective

Very good; excellent.

Usage examples:

The statue really looked bully

verb

Persuade (an unwilling person) to do something by using force or threats.

Usage examples:

He was coerced into giving evidence

verb

To persuade someone forcefully to do something that he or she may not want to do

Usage examples:

I don’t think anybody should be coerced into leaving., they used threats and coercion to keep the o…

verb

To persuade someone forcefully to do something that they are unwilling to do

Usage examples:

Be coerced into the court heard that the six defendants had been coerced into making a confession.

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.

verb

To produce a strong feeling or reaction

Usage examples:

Over the years her work has compelled universal admiration and trust.

noun

A member of any of several cavalry regiments in the british army.

Usage examples:

From the calibre of those we recover we can tell whether they were fired by musketeers, cavalry, dr…

verb

Coerce (someone) into doing something.

Usage examples:

She had been dragooned into helping with the housework

noun

In the past, a soldier who rode on a horse and carried a gun

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…

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

verb

Push roughly; jostle.

Usage examples:

They were hissed and hustled as they went in

noun

A state of great activity.

Usage examples:

The hustle and bustle of the big cities

Move or cause to move energetically or busily

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.

verb

To make someone feel that they must do something

Usage examples:

[ + to infinitive ] she was in such a mess i felt impelled to (= felt i had to) offer your services…

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

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.

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

verb

Produce or maintain raised pressure artificially in (a gas or its container).

Usage examples:

The mixture was pressurized to 1,900 atmospheres

verb

To keep the air pressure in a submarine, plane, etc. at a level that is suitable for breathing

Usage examples:

He was pressurized into signing the agreement.

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"

noun

A track or set of tracks made of steel rails along which passenger and freight trains run; a railway.

Usage examples:

His uncle works on the railroad

verb

Rush or coerce (someone) into doing something.

Usage examples:

She hesitated, unwilling to be railroaded into a decision

noun

A system of transportation using special vehicles whose wheels turn on metal bars fixed to the ground, or a particular company using such a system

Usage examples:

Railroad tracks, a railroad station, the pennsylvania railroad, we feel that our client was railroa…

verb

Need for a particular purpose.

Usage examples:

Three patients required operations

noun

A heavy, slow-moving vehicle with a roller, used to flatten the surfaces of roads during construction.

Usage examples:

After each truckload of earth fell, a steamroller flattened it

verb

(of a government or other authority) forcibly pass (a measure) by restricting debate or otherwise overriding opposition.

Usage examples:

The government's trying to steamroller a law through

noun

A vehicle whose wheels are large, heavy cylinders that roll over a road surface to make it flat

Usage examples:

He steamrollered the bill through congress.

adjective

Disapproving involving force and threats to get people to do something

Usage examples:

The curfew is just another of the city's strong-arm policies.

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…