2 uses
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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
- It has been capitalized at a tremendous investment which must show commensurate returns; it is compelled to extend as well as to keep its markets.
- What the acceptance of the isolation of the Russian Revolution forces Stalin to do, Hitler is compelled to do by his acceptance of the contradictions of capitalism and his efforts to freeze them.
There are no more uses of "compel" in Avant-garde and Kitsch.
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