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Meaning of coerce in English

coerce
verb [ T ]
  formal
us
/koʊˈɝːs/ uk
/kəʊˈɜːs/
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to persuade someone forcefully to do something that they are unwilling to do:
be coerced into The court heard that the six defendants had been coerced into making a confession.
Synonyms
force
pressure US
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Causing somebody to act
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(Definition of coerce from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

coerce | Intermediate English

coerce
verb [ T ]
us
/koʊˈɜrs/
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to persuade someone forcefully to do something that he or she may not want to do:
I don’t think anybody should be coerced into leaving.

coercion

noun [ U ] us
/koʊˈɜr·ʃən/
They used threats and coercion to keep the others in line.

coercive

adjective us
/koʊˈɜr·sɪv/
coercive threats/governments
(Definition of coerce from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of coerce

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When a spouse knows it's in the public record, they can coerce a settlement by threatening to make it public.
From Huffington Post
Did one participant appear to be coercing or otherwise threatening the other?
From Philly.com
We could now apply this newfound language to the cosmos, and begin coercing it to divulge its secrets.
From Phys.Org
The first, less successful approach has been to nationalise banks or otherwise coerce them into serving the poor.
From Business Insider
If anything, a grudging, coerced apology seems to delight him even more than a wholly voluntary one.
From The Atlantic
The exonerated men had long claimed they were coerced as teenagers to confess, after being denied food and sleep for dozens of hours.
From CBS News
Campaigns need to be extremely disruptive -- and strategically so -- to coerce entrenched dictators to abandon their posts.
From Foreign Policy
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in Chinese (Traditional)
強制，強迫, 威逼，脅迫…
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in Chinese (Simplified)
强制，强迫, 威逼，胁迫…
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coaccionar…
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coagir…
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zorlamak, mecbur etmek, cebren yaptırmak…
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zmuszać, przymuszać…
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