All 13 Uses
compel
in
The Red Badge of Courage
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- A sufficient time before he would have allowed the problem to kick its heels at the outer portals of his mind, but now he felt compelled to give serious attention to it.†
Chpt 1compelled = forced; or (more rarely) convinced
- Now, with the newborn question in his mind, he was compelled to sink back into his old place as part of a blue demonstration.†
Chpt 2
- he had been compelled to leave a little protection of stones and dirt to which he had devoted much care and skill.
Chpt 3 *compelled = forced -- perhaps by an inner desire
- They shrank back and crouched as if compelled to await a flood.†
Chpt 4compelled = forced; or (more rarely) convinced
- It would die if its timid eyes were compelled to see blood.†
Chpt 7
- As he was at last compelled to pay attention to them, his capacity for self-hate was multiplied.†
Chpt 11
- The shrilling voices of the people at home would pipe dismally for a time, but various general were usually compelled to listen to these ditties.†
Chpt 11
- He would be compelled to doom himself to isolation.†
Chpt 11
- He tugged frantically, and the youth being compelled to lean forward was dragged several paces.†
Chpt 12
- He was compelled to allow his friend to escape unmolested with his packet.†
Chpt 15
- He had never been compelled to blush in such manner for his acts; he was an individual of extraordinary virtues.†
Chpt 15
- And when he was compelled to retire again, he did it slowly, sullenly, taking steps of wrathful despair.†
Chpt 17
- And now he was compelled to throw them away.†
Chpt 20
Definitions:
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(1)
(compel) to force someone to do something
or more rarely:
to convince someone to do somethingMost typically, compel describes an external influence forcing someone to do something, but it can also describe being driven by an internal desire. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)