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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
- He felt afraid — that cold lump in his stomach was back again — but he also felt compelled to listen.p. 58.1
There are no more uses of "compel" in Oryx and Crake.
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