| 单词 | coerce |
| 释义 | coerce (once / 1217 pages) v You can bring a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. You can coerce — or pressure — someone to attend your office holiday party, but you can't make him have fun. If you're at a point where you feel like you need to coerce someone into doing something, it might be more civilized to just give up. To coerce is to manipulate, use aggressive arguments, pressure unfairly, or threaten — really, this isn't very civilized behavior, is it? Handy synonyms for this verb include force and pressure. In a gangster film, you might hear a character say he "put the squeeze" on someone — another way of saying he coerced them. WORD FAMILYcoerce: coerced, coerces, coercing, coercion, coercive+/coerced: uncoerced/coercion: coercions/coercive: coercively USAGE EXAMPLESYet most of the coerced Christians refuse even this small gesture and suffer agonizing torture and death instead. The New Yorker(Dec 27, 2016) To pay his men, he allegedly coerces civilians. The Guardian(Dec 26, 2016) Or it may be an effort to coerce all nuclear powers into accepting some global aim. New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) v to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city" Syn|Hypo|Hyper force, hale, pressure, squeeze turn up the heat, turn up the pressure apply great or increased pressure driveto compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly bludgeonovercome or coerce as if by using a heavy club steamroll, steamrollerbring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure squeeze forsqueeze someone for money, information, etc. dragoon, railroad, sandbagcompel by coercion, threats, or crude means terrorise, terrorizecoerce by violence or with threats bring oneselfcause to undertake a certain action, usually used in the negative compel, obligate, oblige force somebody to do something |
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