verb Download 🔗Share To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb. Examples : "The bully was coercing the smaller student into giving him his lunch money. " government law politics police action state Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in an attempt to compel one to act against their will. Examples : "The bully was coercing the younger student into giving up his lunch money by threatening to beat him up. " law police government politics moral inhuman right action Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type. Examples : "The spreadsheet program was coercing the dates, which should have been in a chronological order, into text format, so they wouldn't sort correctly. " computing technology Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
