Crossword-Solution: COERCE 6 letters, 98 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word Word Type Definition
Coerce v. t. To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to
repress; to curb.
Coerce v. t. To compel or constrain to any action; as, to coerce a
man to vote for a certain candidate.
Coerce v. t. To compel or enforce; as, to coerce obedience.

We have 98 clues for the answer “COERCE”

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Engage in arm-twisting 1 answer
Persuade an unwilling person to do something using force or threats 1 answer
Participate in a bit of arm-twisting 1 answer
Not just cajole 1 answer
Forcibly dominate 1 answer
Force to confess, say 1 answer
Force to action 1 answer
Force compliance 1 answer
Exploit anxiety, perhaps 1 answer
Exact by force 1 answer
He squeezed her for information 1 answer
Do some arm- twisting 1 answer
Control forcibly 1 answer
Compel to any action. 1 answer
Compel through intimidation 1 answer
Compel forcefully 1 answer
Compel by force 1 answer
Bring about through force 1 answer
Be an arm twister 1 answer
Achieve by threats 1 answer
Persuade by threats 1 answer
to compel or restrain by force 1 answer
What landlords mustn't do to tenants. 1 answer
Use undue mental pressure 1 answer
Use intimidation 1 answer
Use force upon. 1 answer
Twist some arms 1 answer
Twist one's arm 1 answer
Really lean on 1 answer
Persuade by force 1 answer
Put the pressure on 1 answer
Persuade with pressure 1 answer
Persuade forcefully 1 answer
Put the screws on 2 answers
Arm-twist 2 answers
Twist an arm 2 answers
Don't just ask 2 answers
Do some arm-twisting 2 answers
Force to do something 2 answers
Twist the arm of 2 answers
Not just ask 2 answers
Persuade someone into doing something using threats 2 answers
Force into 3 answers
Bring about by force 3 answers
USE force 4 answers
Push (around) 7 answers
Lean on 7 answers
Put the squeeze on 7 answers
COMPEL TO LEAVE 10 answers
ABOUT TWIST 10 answers
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATREE
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greedy person
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Sentences with COERCE (5)

The practice of translating {hot spot}s from an {HLL} into hand-tuned assembler, as opposed to trying to coerce the compiler into generating better code.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
These two premises accepted there could be little doubt that Schneider would prove trustworthy in so far as accepting the command of the Cowrie was concerned; after that Kai Shang knew that he could find means to coerce the man into submission to his further wishes.
The Beasts of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
Bulldozing.] To intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; Ð used originally of the intimidation of negro voters, in Louisiana.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995
Why should past or future coerce her, when the present was so securely hers? Why insanely surrender what the other would after all never have? Her sense of irony whispered that if she sent away Darrow it would not be to Sophy Viner, but to the first woman who crossed his path--as, in a similar hour, Sophy Viner herself had crossed it...But the mere fact that she could think such things of him sent her shuddering back to the opposite pole.
The Reef Edith Wharton 1995
Although he had bitterly opposed secession, and was many years past the age of service when the war came on, yet as soon as the President called on the State for her quota of troops to coerce South Carolina, he had raised and uniformed an artillery company, and offered it, not to the President of the United States, but to the Governor of Virginia.
The Burial of the Guns Thomas Nelson Page 2008

Quotes with COERCE (3)

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce othersto act according to his own view of truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
Her unusual upbringing had made her worldly enough to understand that every female, no matter her genus and species, had the ability to physically coerce a male into full cooperation. And yes, she knew just the male to coerce.
Delilah Marvelle Prelude to a Scandal
Struggles to coerce uniformity of sentiment in support of some end thought essential to their time and country have been waged by many good as well as by evil men. Nationalism is a relatively recent phenomenon but at other times and places the ends have been racial or territorial security, support of a dynasty or regime, and particular plans for saving souls. As first and moderate methods to attain unity have failed, those bent on its accomplishment must resort to an ever-inc…
Robert H. Jackson
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 124 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).