Compel means to force or drive someone to do something. Even if you don't like toast, when you visit the toast eating natives of Shrintakook Island, you'll be compelled to eat it, or they will not trust you.
To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force.
Verb
make someone do something
Verb
force or compel somebody to do something; "We compel all students to fill out this form"
v. t.
To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force;
to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral
force.
v. t.
To take by force or violence; to seize; to exact; to
extort.
v. t.
To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.
v. t.
To gather or unite in a crowd or company.
v. t.
To call forth; to summon.
v. i.
To make one yield or submit.
Compel
Wolsey . . . compelled the people to pay up the whole subsidy at once.
And they compel one Simon . . . to bear his cross.2.
Commissions, which compel from each The sixth part of his substance.3.
Easy sleep their weary limbs compelled.
I compel all creatures to my will.4.
She had this knight from far compelled.
Compel
To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force.
To make one yield or submit.
Usage Examples
It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.
Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home.
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.
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Other Usage ExamplesHis lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.
History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes and yet she will be woman still.
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