COERCE


Meaning of COERCE in English

(~s, coercing, ~d)

If you ~ someone into doing something, you make them do it, although they do not want to. (FORMAL)

Potter had argued that the government ~d him into pleading guilty...

= pressurize

VERB: V n into -ing/n

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