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compel

Verbin Dialogen belegt

  • //kəmˈpɛl//

To overpower; to subdue.

Verb

  1. 1

    altertümlichTo drive together, round up.

    The shepherds compelled the stray sheep into the fold as night began to fall.

  2. 2

    To overpower; to subdue.

    She had one of those perfect faces, which irresistibly compel the soul of a man.

  3. 3

    To force, constrain, or coerce.

    Logic compels the wise, while fools feel compelled by emotions.

    Congratulations, your courage compels respect.

    Against my will, / As Pompey was, am I compell’d to set / Upon one battle all our liberties.

    Wolsey […] compelled the people to pay up the whole subsidy at once.

  4. 4

    To forcefully or powerfully motivate (a course of action).

    As the novel progresses, it picks up a propulsive energy, the kind that compels you to keep reading straight through to the end.

  5. 5

    To have a strong, irresistible force (on someone or something).

  6. 6

    To exact, extort, (make) produce by force.

    Commissions, which compel from each / The sixth part of his substance.

    The Queen has nothing but the power to execute the laws, to adjust grievances and to compel order.

  7. 7

    veraltetTo force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.

    Easy sleep their weary limbs compell'd.

    And I will fetch you forage from all fields, / For I compel all creatures to my will.

  8. 8

    veraltetTo gather or unite in a crowd or company.

    in one troop compell'd

  9. 9

    veraltetTo call forth; to summon.

    She had this knight from far compeld.

    the pow'rs that I compel / Shall throw thee hence, and make thy head run ope the gates of hel

Herkunft

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *pel- Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *-né-der. Proto-Italic *pelnōder. Latin pellō Latin compellerebor. Middle French compellirbor. Middle English compellen English compel From Middle English compellen, borrowed from Middle French compellir, from Latin compellere, itself from com- (“together”) + pellere (“to drive”). Displaced native Old English nīedan.

Formen

Präteritum
compelled
Partizip II
compelled
Partizip I
compelling
3. Person Singular
compels
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