MEANING
To compel someone to act through threats or powerful pressure.
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Words that belong together
- coerce a confession
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They coerced a confession from him.
The captor coerced her into opening the door.
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Word forms
- Base
- coerce
- Past tense
- coerced
- Past participle
- coerced
- Present participle
- coercing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- coerce
- Present continuous
- am/is/are coercing
- Present perfect
- have/has coerced
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been coercing
- Past
- coerced
- Past continuous
- was/were coercing
- Past perfect
- had coerced
- Past perfect continuous
- had been coercing
- Future
- will coerce
- Future continuous
- will be coercing
- Future perfect
- will have coerced
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been coercing
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: coerce; coerces; coerced; coerced; coercing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: coerces.
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