compel

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Causing somebody to act
arm-twisting
bludgeon
bounce someone into something
browbeat someone into something/doing something
bull something through
coercion
drive someone/something to something
duress
force someone's handidiom
forced marriage
forcible
push (someone) toward(s) something
put the heat on someoneidiom
put/tighten the screws on someoneidiom
rallying cry
ram something down someone's throatidiom
ransom
slap
squeeze
wring

compulsion | American Dictionary

compulsion
noun
us/kəmˈpʌl·ʃən/
[ C/U ]
a force that makes you do something:
[ U ]Management felt no compulsion to provide housing for families.

Examples of compulsion

compulsion
None of which is to deny that legal compulsions and prohibitions are sometimes justified and even desirable.
Increasing urbanisation due to migration and the compulsions of the city have further weakened the family.
One proband (2 %) had obsessions only, twelve (21 %) had compulsions only, and forty-four (77 %) had both obsessions and compulsions.
Obsessive - compulsive disorder consists of repetitive intrusive thoughts (obsessions) or behaviors (compulsions).
However, specific categories of obsessions and compulsions were collapsed into more general categories to make this module less lengthy to administer.
First, an individual's relationship with 'saints' is often determined primarily by social context rather than simply by doctrinal allegiance or the compulsions of particular 'beliefs'.
By contrast, positive liberty revolves around internal constraints that inhibit freedom such as addictions, fears, and compulsions.
The electoral, if not political, compulsions of a democracy cannot be set aside for long.
Of note, 9 of the 12 patients had obsessions related to numbers or counting compulsions.
The essentialism implicit in compulsion's challenge is misguided, and, in fact, actually existing political orders come far closer to that demanded by liberal norms than might be supposed.
The only exception to this was that by study convention we did not exclude subjects who felt there might be some rational basis for their obsessions or compulsions.
The most compulsive compulsion, the master compulsion, is the compulsion to appropriate one's own expropriation.
The language was that of co-operation, not compulsion.
He praised the energetic and scolded the slack; and competition for honour proved as effective as compulsion.
Comorbidity of anxiety, phobia, compulsions and depression.
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