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View definitions for compelled

compelled

adjective as in answerable

adjective as in managed

adjective as in obligated

adjective as in obliged

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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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On this page you'll find 307 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to compelled, such as: accountable, amenable, liable, obligated, obliged, and bound.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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