coerce

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means

   They coerced the employee into taking a position in a city they were not interested in living in.

From Latin coërceō (“to surround, encompass, restrain, control, curb”), from co- (“together”) + arceō (“to inclose, confine, keep off”).

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