Compels

/kəmˈpɛlz/

Synonyms for "compels" (7 found)

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Closest matches (2)

Verb(2 words)

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Verb(2 words)

Related words (3)

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Collocations

6 entries
compels a responsecompels actioncompels assentcompels attentioncompels compliancecompels consideration

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Derivations

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Sample sentences

9 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

What compels you to meow?

Source: tatoeba (812829)

Apparently, the computer compels me to not see the interesting discussion.

Source: tatoeba (2803526)

Then Dido, struck with wonder at the sight / of one so great and in so strange a plight, / "O Goddess-born! what fate through dangers sore, / what force to savage coasts compels thy flight?"

Source: tatoeba (6797898)

That is the vilest of all tyranny where a man compels the woman he says he loves, to endure the agony of bearing children that she does not want, and for whom, as is the rule rather than the exception, they cannot properly provide.

Source: tatoeba (8603290)

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