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compelled

adjectiveverbattested in dialogue

  • //kəmˈpɛld//

Driven; forced.

adjective

  1. 1

    Driven; forced.

    I do believe state policymakers are very compelled to address those early years.

    I was very compelled by the experience of watching Hamlet and the opening scene that has the ghost of his father on the parapet saying, “Revenge my death.”

    I was the only one who was in a position to do it, and I felt very compelled to do so.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of compelsimple past and past participle of compel

Forms

comparative
more compelled
superlative
most compelled
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).