Definition of "compelled" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of compel. (verb)

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• "Sorry, rpt, we thought that when you said “compelled” you mean *compelled*."
• "The power of the word compelled me to write a few of my own and as indifference became a luxury I could no longer afford, I chose confrontation, she said."
• "The audacity and unconventionality of the storiettes was a shock to bourgeois morality and prejudice; but when Paris went mad over the immediate translation that was made, the American and English reading public followed suit and bought so many copies that Martin compelled the conservative house of"