All 3 Uses of
compel
in
Arrowsmith
- He would flee to her in Easter vacation; he would compel Tozer to support her while she studied stenography in Zenith; he would have her near him through the last year.†
Chpt 10 *
- McGurk had bullied Dr. Tubbs now and then; Tubbs was compelled to scurry to his office as though he were a messenger boy; yet when he saw the saturnine eyes of Gottlieb, McGurk looked interested; and the two men, the bulky, clothes-conscious, powerful, reticent American and the cynical, simple, power-despising European, became friends.†
Chpt 27
- He had been compelled to give up much of his time to mere housework and the production of the sera which paid his expenses.†
Chpt 39
Definition:
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(compel) to force someone to do something
or more rarely:
to convince someone to do something