• v.
    ⦿necessitate or exact
    lexical concept
  • the water shortage compels conservation

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized senseenl:compel
wn:interlingual indexili:i34849

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelcompel