Synonyms for coerce
koʊˈɜrsco·erce

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1. coerceverb

   Synonyms:
   compel, bully, dragoon

2. coerceverb

   To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.

   Synonyms:
   bully, compel, dragoon

3. coerceverb

   to use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in attempt to compel one to act against his will.

   Synonyms:
   compel, bully, dragoon

4. coerceverb

   to force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type.

   Synonyms:
   dragoon, compel, bully

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. coerce

   To compel one to an act is to secure its performance by the use of irresistible physical or moral force. Force implies primarily an actual physical process, absolutely subduing all resistance. Coerce implies the actual or potential use of so much force as may be necessary to secure the surrender of the will; the American secessionists contended that the Federal government had no right to coerce a State. Constrain implies the yielding of judgment and will, and in some cases of inclination or affection, to an overmastering power; as, "the love of Christ constraineth us," 2 Cor. v, 14. Compare DRIVE; INFLUENCE.

   See synonyms for HINDER.

   Synonyms:
   compel, constrain, drive, force, make, necessitate, oblige

   Preposition:
   The soldiers were compelled to desertion: preferably with the infinitive, compelled to desert.

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1. coerce

   Synonyms:
   restrain, inhibit, impel, compel, drive, counteract, check, constrain, force, confine, intimidate

   Antonyms:
   permit, persuade, urge, instigate, encourage, liberate, induce, seduce, tempt

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1. coerce, hale, squeeze, pressure, forceverb

   to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"

   "He squeezed her for information"

   Synonyms:
   draw, storm, blackjack, pressure, crush, thrust, rack, ram, hale, press, blackmail, twitch, gouge, tweet, embrace, impel, force, shove, twinge, compress, hug, drive, constrict, cart, contract, extort, stuff, squeeze, squash, compact, pinch, drag, wring, mash, push, bosom, wedge, squelch, pull, haul

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1. coerceverb

   Synonyms:
   restrain, curb, check, put under restraint

2. coerceverb

   Synonyms:
   compel, force, drive, constrain

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1. coerceverb

   Synonyms:
   constrain, compel, intimidate, restrain

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1. List of paraphrases for "coerce":

   compel, oblige, constrain

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How to use coerce in a sentence?

1. The FBI:

   They coerce victims to pay a quick ransom before the scheme falls apart.

2. Kent Yalowitz:

   There was extensive evidence that the orchestrated terrorism campaign was not only to coerce and intimidate the government of Israel but also to coerce and intimate the government of the United States.

3. George Beebe:

   Most Russians see U.S. relations as a fundamental source of the relationship's problems, in their view, Washington grew too ambitious in the aftermath of the Cold War. It attempted to remake Russia and remake the world according to American preferences and this from the Russian point of view proved to be disastrous.It helped to produce the collapse of the Russian state during the 1990s. It led to destabilizing wars in the Middle East and Central Asia. It produced a long series of punitive sanctions by the U.S. meant to coerce Moscow into submission.And rather than pursuing Gorbachev's bold vision of a common European home that included Russia in the broad security architecture, the U.S. opted to make NATO the foundation for European security, to bring NATO closer to Russia's borders.

4. Mayor Ed Murray:

   The federal government can not compel our police department to enforce federal immigration law and can not use our federal dollars to coerce Seattle into turning our backs on our immigrant and refugee communities. We simply wo n’t do it.

5. Stan Shaw:

   Defacing it by taking the arms off or anything of that nature -- it's just a slap in the face for World War I veterans, i don't see how a static cross can coerce anybody into a state religion.