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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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