"compel" | Definition and Related Words

Verb

Force somebody to do something (synset 202512195)
"We compel all students to fill out this form"

causes: act, move - perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)

is a type of: cause, get, have, induce, make, stimulate - cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
subtypes:
- force, thrust - impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably
- walk - make walk
- coerce, force, hale, pressure, squeeze - to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means
- clamor - compel someone to do something by insistent clamoring
- condemn - compel or force into a particular state or activity
- shame - compel through a sense of shame
- apply, enforce, implement - ensure observance of laws and rules
- constrain, enforce, impose - compel to behave in a certain way
same as: obligate, oblige
Necessitate or exact (synset 202641501)
"the water shortage compels conservation"

is a type of: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take - require as useful, just, or proper