Word Meanings - COMPEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force. Wolsey . . . compelled the people to pay up the whole subsidy at once. Hallam. And they compel one Simon . .

Additional info about word: COMPEL

1. To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force. Wolsey . . . compelled the people to pay up the whole subsidy at once. Hallam. And they compel one Simon . . . to bear his cross. Mark xv. 21. 2. To take by force or violence; to seize; to exact; to extort. Commissions, which compel from each The sixth part of his substance. Shak. 3. To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate. Easy sleep their weary limbs compelled. Dryden. I compel all creatures to my will. Tennyson. 4. To gather or unite in a crowd or company. "In one troop compelled." Dryden. 5. To call forth; to summon. Chapman. She had this knight from far compelled. Spenser. Syn. -- To force; constrain; oblige; necessitate; coerce. See Coerce.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMPEL)

• Bind
• Fetter
• engage
• tie
• fasten
• secure
• lace
• twine
• oblige
• compel
• restrict
• restrain
• Coerce
• Restrain
• inhibit
• impel
• drive
• counteract
• check
• constrain
• force
• confine
• intimidate
• Enforce
• Urge
• require
• exact
• exert
• strain
• Oblige
• Compel
• coerce
• necessitate
• benefit
• favor
• accommodate
• gratify
• bind
• Press Urge
• crowd
• squeeze
• crush
• compress
• express
• hurry
• instigate
• inculcate
• impress
• throng
• encroach
• lean
• weigh
• harass

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of COMPEL)

• Loose
• liberate
• instigate
• accelerate
• license
• indulge
• allow
• abet
• Learn
• be impressed
• be studious
• be mindful
• Loosen
• betray
• surrender
• expose
• imperil
• endanger
• open
• free

Related words: (words related to COMPEL)

• CHECKWORK
  Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• ENCROACHER
  One who by gradual steps enters on, and takes possession of, what is not his own.
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• INHIBITORY
  Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center. I would not have you consider these criticisms as inhibitory. Lamb.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• FAVOR
  Partiality; bias. Bouvier. 9. A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received. 10. pl. (more info) L. favor, fr. favere to be favorable, cf. Skr. bhavaya to further, foster, causative of bhBe.
• EXERT
  out; ex out + serere to join or bind together. See Series, and cf. 1. To thrust forth; to emit; to push out. So from the seas exerts his radiant head The star by whom the lights of heaven are led. Dryden. 2. To put force, ability, or anything of
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• EXACTOR
  One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
• EXACTING
  Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. "A temper so exacting." T. Arnold -- Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• HARASS
  To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out. harassed with a long and wearisome march. Bacon. Nature
• ALLOWEDLY
  By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
• OBLIGER
  One who, or that which, obliges. Sir H. Wotton.
• COUNTERACT
  To act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice.
• ALLOW
  allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend
• RESTRICT
  Restricted.
• DRIVEL
  To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love. Shak. Dryden. (more info) 1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard. 2. Etym:
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• INEXACTLY
  In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
• REENGAGEMENT
  A renewed or repeated engagement.
• SALLOWISH
  Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• INEXACT
  Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.