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coerce

verb

  1. to persuade
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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”).

  1. To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
  2. 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.

  3. To force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type.