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Definition
to force someone to do something
or more rarely:
to convince someone to do something
or more rarely:
to convince someone to do something
- Finding ourselves too slow of sail, we put on a compelled valour, and in the grapple I boarded them: on the instant they got clear of our ship; so I alone became their prisoner.4.6 — Act 4 Scene 6 — Another room in the Castle (52% in)
There are no more uses of "compel" in Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
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