what does coerce mean?
COERCE as VERB
- Meaning
- to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :”She forced him to take a job in the city”
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- He squeezed her for information
Hypernyms(s) coerce is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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