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compelled

[ kuhm-peld ]

adjective

  1. secured or brought about by force:

    Statements made in a compelled interview may not be used in a criminal proceeding.

  2. forced or driven to a particular course of action, often by an irresistible internal urge:

    I haven't felt so compelled to learn as much as I can about something since my fascination with Slavic folk music!



verb

  1. the simple past tense and past participle of compel ( def ).

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Example Sentences

She felt compelled to come forward because the allegations in that case seem similar to her own regarding Cosby.

And, de Blasio told reporters he felt compelled to make a particular statement.

As a former arts teacher, she feels compelled to help the now-hysterical young boy.

Creator Rod Serling was compelled by the need “not to just entertain but to enlighten.”

But now many of the rich feel compelled to “make a difference.”

He couldn't sell them; he couldn't burn them; he was even compelled to insure them, to his intense disgust.

She set off down Trafalgar Road in the mist and the rain, glad that she had been compelled to walk.

Before daybreak we had ridden five and twenty miles, but had been compelled to abandon two more guns.

Tatham says, "Even the tavern keepers were compelled to exchange a dinner for a few pounds of tobacco."

The weapons, the most unusual weapons, we are reluctantly compelled to accept under protest.

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