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compelled

adj
/kəmˈpɛld/

Definitions

  1. Driven

    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.

  2. simple past and past participle of compel

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at compelled. 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.

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A definitional loop anchored at compelled. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at compelled

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