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coerced
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coerce \Co*erce"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Coerced ; p. pr. & vb. n. Coercing .] [L. co["e]rcere; co- + arcere to shut up, to press together. See Ark .] To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb. --Burke. Punishments are manifold, ...
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vb. (en-past of: coerce ), being forced
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Usage examples of coerced.
It is upon the ground that a State can not be coerced that observance of the compact is a sacred obligation.
Save, perhaps, that he was a boy, coerced and cornered by circumstance.
There is simply chemistry, and its truth is not forced or coerced or ideologically imposed, but is freely open to any who wish to look into its reasons.
Windham had coerced her into doing the one thing Morgan could never forgive.
Sarah could read his changing expressions as he decided not to attempt to exert his masculine authority over her now, before he had wooed or coerced her into becoming his wife.
He could have coerced a lower being, but for his manhood's sake--he had risen to that now, it is curious how the dignity of fatherhood helps to make a man--he could not coerce here, and if he did, he knew that the product would be disaster.
She coerced the unwilling car into the garage, and ran between the rustling pines.
If he feels coerced or pressured too hard, he may wish to look elsewhere for his bride.
Aoun and another manservant coerced into helping carried out perhaps a dozen kegs of the Saelutian mead and concealed them in an unused storeroom.