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forcer — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • coerce verb To force someone into doing something, using pressure, threats, or intimidation.
  • compel verb To force or pressure someone into doing something.
  • force noun Strength or power exerted to move, influence, or affect something.
  • take verb To reach out and get hold of something, or to remove or carry it away.

Senses

forcer is used for these senses in English:

  • coerce (transitive, computing) To force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type.
  • compel (transitive) To force, constrain, or coerce.
  • shoehorn (transitive, figuratively) To force (something) into (a tight space); to squeeze (something) into (a schedule, etc); to exert great effort to insert or include (something); to include (something) despite potent reasons not to.
  • take (transitive) To have sex with.

coerce — full definition

  1. verb To force someone into doing something, using pressure, threats, or intimidation.
  2. verb In computing, to force a value to convert from one data type to another.

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