• v.
    ⦿to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means

Semantic relations

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
wn:example
  1. ⦿He squeezed her for information
  2. ⦿She forced him to take a job in the city
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:coerce
  2. enl:pressure
wn:interlingual indexili:i34239
wn:eq synonymdn:tvinge§1

Other

dc:Subjectverb.social
skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • coerceforcehalepressuresqueeze
  • coercepressure