coerce
verb
- to persuade
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /kəʊˈɜːs/ / /koʊˈɝs/ / /kəʉˈɜːs/
verb
Etymology: From Latin coërceō (“to surround, encompass, restrain, control, curb”), from co- (“together”) + arceō (“to inclose, confine, keep off”).
- To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
- To use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in an attempt to compel one to act against their will.
“They coerced their children into going to the country park.”
“A woman who freely engages in any of these activities, or who rejects anti-porn dogma, is thought to be coerced, brainwashed, an apologist of the patriarchy or a "social man." A woman who agrees that she has been coerced into one of these activities will be honored by anti-porners. The opinions of the rest of us are routinely discounted.”
- To force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type.