Crossword-Solution: COMPEL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Compel | v. t. | To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force. |
| Compel | v. t. | To take by force or violence; to seize; to exact; to extort. |
| Compel | v. t. | To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate. |
| Compel | v. t. | To gather or unite in a crowd or company. |
| Compel | v. t. | To call forth; to summon. |
| Compel | v. i. | To make one yield or submit. |
We have 75 clues for the answer “COMPEL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| PC Mole (anag.) | 1 answer |
| Drive (to do) | 1 answer |
| Force (to do) | 1 answer |
| Force or drive | 1 answer |
| Force to submit | 1 answer |
| Force, as to do something | 1 answer |
| force somebody to do something | 1 answer |
| Make mandatory | 2 answers |
| Urge forcefully | 2 answers |
| Force into action | 2 answers |
| Achieve by force | 2 answers |
| make someone do something | 2 answers |
| Force to do something | 2 answers |
| Bring about by force | 3 answers |
| Necessitate | 14 answers |
| concuss | 14 answers |
| BEAR down on | 14 answers |
| Require | 22 answers |
| Extort | 22 answers |
| Enforce | 24 answers |
| misgovern | 27 answers |
| prevail over | 30 answers |
| outweigh | 30 answers |
| overtax | 32 answers |
| overlap | 34 answers |
| predominate | 35 answers |
| over-rule | 35 answers |
| overmaster | 36 answers |
| Coerce | 36 answers |
| COMMOVE | 38 answers |
| seduce | 38 answers |
| transcend | 39 answers |
| tyrannise | 39 answers |
| Inveigle | 39 answers |
| Exhort | 41 answers |
| Coax | 42 answers |
| revoke | 42 answers |
| Prevail | 43 answers |
| Superimpose | 43 answers |
| Invite | 44 answers |
| disarm | 44 answers |
| Overturn | 45 answers |
| oppress | 45 answers |
| wreak | 46 answers |
| domineer | 47 answers |
| constrain | 47 answers |
| Bribe | 48 answers |
| ACT like a tonic | 50 answers |
| Vamp | 50 answers |
| Spur | 52 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
EAAR
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with COMPEL (5)
Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do Business; but a smaller Number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the Attendance of absent Members, in such Manner, and under such Penalties as each House may provide.
Thenceforth to Speculations high or deep I turnd my thoughts, and with capacious mind Considerd all things visible in Heav’n, Or Earth, or Middle, all things fair and good; But all that fair and good in thy Divine Semblance, and in thy Beauties heav’nly Ray United I beheld; no Fair to thine Equivalent or second, which compel’d Mee thus, though importune perhaps, to come And gaze, and worship thee of right declar’d Sovran of Creatures, universal Dame.
The risk of injuring you through your moving was too great not to compel me to tell you an untruth to obviate it.” She shuddered.
What can thy silence do for him, except it tempt him—yea, compel him, as it were—to add hypocrisy to sin? Heaven hath granted thee an open ignominy, that thereby thou mayest work out an open triumph over the evil within thee and the sorrow without.
And I thought that it was easy for me to select some matters which should neither be obnoxious to much controversy, nor should compel me to expound more of my principles than I desired, and which should yet be sufficient clearly to exhibit what I can or cannot accomplish in the sciences.
Quotes with COMPEL (3)
The hardest bones, containing the richest marrow, can be conquered only by a united crushing of all the teeth of all dogs. That of course is only a figure of speech and exaggerated; if all teeth were but ready they would not need even to bite, the bones would crack themselves and the marrow would be freely accessible to the feeblest of dogs. If I remain faithful to this metaphor, then the goal of my aims, my questions, my inquiries, appears monstrous, it is true. For I want t…
We cannot decide to love. We cannot compel anyone to love us. There's no secret recipe, only love itself. And we are at its mercy--there's nothing we can do.
If you can control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to accept an inferior status, for he will seek it himself. If you make a man think that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him to the back door. He will go without being told; and if there is no back door, his very nature will demand one.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 32 times in crossword archives (1971–2023).