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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
- Am Igoing to have to go to law to compel you to do your sworn duty?4 — April 8, 1928 (67% in)
There are no more uses of "compel" in The Sound and the Fury.
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