coerce.
To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
Meaning & usage
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.
To force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type.
Where this word comes from
From Latin coërceō (“to surround, encompass, restrain, control, curb”), from co- (“together”) + arceō (“to inclose, confine, keep off”).
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