• v.
    ⦿to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means
    lexical concept
  • He squeezed her for information
  • She forced him to take a job in the city

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:coerce
  2. enl:force
  3. enl:hale
  4. enl:pressure
  5. enl:squeeze
wn:interlingual indexili:i34239
wn:eq synonymdn:tvinge§1

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • coerceforcehalepressuresqueeze
  • coercepressure