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compel

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  • //kəmˈpɛl//

To overpower; to subdue.

verbo

  1. 1

    arcaicoTo 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

    obsoletoTo 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

    obsoletoTo gather or unite in a crowd or company.

    in one troop compell'd

  9. 9

    obsoletoTo 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

Etimologia

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.

Formas

pretérito
compelled
particípio passado
compelled
gerúndio
compelling
3.ª pessoa do singular
compels
As páginas vizinhasA ordem alfabética segue as regras da língua, não o valor dos bytes: um acento só desempata entre duas palavras de resto idênticas, e o espanhol trata o Ñ como uma letra à parte.

Conteúdo lexical proveniente do Wiktionary, sob licença CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrada de origem · Versão dos dados 2026-08-23

Posição entre as palavras do corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — legendas de cinema e televisão, ou seja língua falada e não escrita (CC BY-SA 3.0).