coerce

About 0.67 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

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

Similar words

force pressure coercive compel constrain enforce forcible forced oblige duress

Often followed by

the a them or him and her their others

Word family

coerced coerces coercible coercing