Synonyms for coerced
- browbeat
- bully
- intimidate
- repress
- strong-arm
- suppress
- terrorize
- beset
- bulldoze
- concuss
- constrain
- cow
- dragoon
- drive
- force
- hinder
- impel
- make
- menace
- oblige
- pressurize
- push
- restrict
- threaten
- urge
- high pressure
- lean on
- make an offer they can't refuse
- put the squeeze on
- shotgun
- twist one's arm
Antonyms for coerced
EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR COERCED
Something in him at once coerced her friendliest confidence.
No one is coerced to labour, but in proportion as a man does labour he makes use of capital.
And this activity is spontaneous, in the sense that it is not coerced from without.
I have no doubt that the coerced perusal of them to which he had to submit did him a deal of good.
If she could be so coerced we would destroy her brain before she could act.
"A machine cannot be coerced," the robot-confessor told him.
Si, señor—and add to those some others that would not be coerced.
Sheep should be humored rather than hurried; coaxed, rather than coerced.
Driven, lured, coerced, these Aryan tribes have inundated the earth.
He is compromised, coerced, by the elements of language; but what of that?
WORD ORIGIN
mid-15c., cohercen, from Middle French cohercer, from Latin coercere "to control, restrain, shut up together," from com- "together" (see co-) + arcere "to enclose, confine, contain, ward off," from PIE *ark- "to hold, contain, guard" (see arcane). Related: Coerced; coercing. No record of the word between late 15c. and mid-17c.; its reappearance 1650s is perhaps a back-formation from coercion.