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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To force to act or think in a certain way by use of pressure, threats, or intimidation; compel.
  2. v. To dominate, restrain, or control forcibly: coerced the strikers into compliance. See Synonyms at force.
  3. v. To bring about by force or threat: efforts to coerce agreement.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To restrain or constrain by force, as by the force of law or authority; especially, compel to compliance; constrain to obedience or submission in a vigorous or forcible manner.
  2. To deprive of by force; restrain of.
  3. To enforce; compel by forcible action: as, tocoerce obedience.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
  2. v. transitive to use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in attempt to compel one to act against his will.
  3. v. transitive, computing to force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
  2. v. To compel or constrain to any action.
  3. v. To compel or enforce.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :

Etymologies

  1. From Latin coercere ("to surround, encompass, restrain, control, curb"), from co- ("together") + arcere ("to inclose, confine, keep off"); see arcade, arcane, ark. (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin coercēre, to control, restrain : co-, co- + arcēre, to enclose, confine. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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