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| type | v |
| lex_filenum | 41 |
| def | to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city" |
| examples | He squeezed her for information |
| Frame - 24 | Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE |
| Frame - 30 | Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something |
| Outgoing links | |
| Cause | act, move |
| Hypernym | compel, oblige, obligate |
| Derivationally related form | force → force |
| Derivationally related form | force → force |
| Derivationally related form | pressure → pressure |
| Derivationally related form | pressure → pressure |
| Derivationally related form | squeeze → squeeze |
| Derivationally related form | coerce → coercive; coerce → coercion |
| Derivationally related form | coerce → coercion |
| Hyponym | turn up the heat, turn up the pressure; drive; bludgeon; steamroller, steamroll; squeeze for; dragoon, sandbag, railroad; terrorize, terrorise; bring oneself |
| Incoming links | |
| Derivationally related form | coercive → coerce; coercion → coerce |
| Derivationally related form | coercion → coerce |
| Derivationally related form | squeeze → squeeze |
| Derivationally related form | force → force |
| Derivationally related form | pressure → pressure |
| Derivationally related form | force → force |
| Derivationally related form | pressure → pressure |
| Hypernym | turn up the heat, turn up the pressure; drive; bludgeon; steamroller, steamroll; squeeze for; dragoon, sandbag, railroad; terrorize, terrorise; bring oneself |
| Hyponym | compel, oblige, obligate |
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