coerce
verbEtymology
From Latin coërceō (“to surround, encompass, restrain, control, curb”), from co- (“together”) + arceō (“to inclose, confine, keep off”).
Definitions
To restrain by force, especially by law or authority
To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
To use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in an attempt to compel one to act against…
To use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in an attempt to compel one to act against their will.
- They coerced their children into going to the country park.
To force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data…
To force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at coerce. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at coerce. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at coerce
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA