coerce
verbUK /kəʊˈɜːs/ · CA, US /koʊˈɝs/
Etymology From Latin coërceō (“to surround, encompass, restrain, control, curb”), from co- (“together”) + arceō (“to inclose, confine, keep off”).
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To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
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To use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in an attempt to compel one to act against their will.
- They coerced their children into going to the country park.
- A woman who freely engages in any of these activities, or who rejects anti-porn dogma, is thought to be coerced, brainwashed, an apologist of the patriarchy or a "social man." A woman who agrees that she has been coerced into one of these activities will be honored by anti-porners. The opinions of the rest of us are routinely discounted.1984 December 22, Gayle Rubin, “Censored: Anti-Porn Laws And Women's Liberation”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 23, page 8:
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type.