Pronunciation Verb
coerce (coerces, present participle coercing; past and past participle coerced)
- (transitive) To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
- (transitive) To use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in an attempt to compel one to act against their will.
- (transitive, computing) To force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type.
- German: erzwingen
- Russian: удерживать
- French: forcer, contraindre
- German: zwingen
- Italian: costringere
- Portuguese: coagir, forçar
- Russian: заставля́ть
- Spanish: coercer
- French: forcer
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