Verb
coerce (third-person singular simple present coerces, present participle coercing, simple past and past participle coerced)
- (transitive) To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
- (transitive) 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.
- (transitive, computing) To force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type.
Translations
to restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb
to use force, threat, or intimidation in attempt to compel one to act against their will
- Arabic: أَجْبَرَ (ar) (ʔajbara), اِضْطَرَّ (iḍṭarra)
- Armenian: հարկադրել (hy) (harkadrel)
- Belarusian: прымуша́ць impf (prymušácʹ), прыму́сіць pf (prymúsicʹ), змуша́ць impf (zmušácʹ), зму́сіць pf (zmúsicʹ)
- Bulgarian: принужда́вам (bg) impf (prinuždávam), прину́дя pf (prinúdja), заста́вям (bg) impf (zastávjam), заста́вя (bg) pf (zastávja)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 強迫/强迫 (zh) (qiǎngpò, qiángpò)
- Czech: nutit (cs) impf, donutit (cs) pf, přinutit (cs) pf
- Dutch: dwingen (nl), afdwingen (nl), forceren (nl)
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: pakottaa (fi), painostaa (fi)
- French: forcer (fr), contraindre (fr)
- German: zwingen (de)
- Greek: αναγκάζω (el) (anagkázo), εξαναγκάζω (el) (exanagkázo)
- Italian: costringere (it)
- Japanese: 強いる (ja) (しいる, shiiru)
- Korean: 강요하다 (ko) (gang'yohada)
- Latin: coercere
- Maori: uruhi
- Mongolian: албадах (mn) (albadax)
- Norwegian: tvinge
- Polish: zmuszać (pl) impf, zmusić (pl) pf
- Portuguese: coagir (pt), forçar (pt)
- Russian: заставля́ть (ru) impf (zastavljátʹ), заста́вить (ru) pf (zastávitʹ), принужда́ть (ru) impf (prinuždátʹ), прину́дить (ru) pf (prinúditʹ)
- Slovak: nútiť impf, donútiť pf, prinútiť pf
- Spanish: coercer (es)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: zorlamak (tr), mecbur etmek (tr)
- Ukrainian: приму́шувати (uk) impf (prymúšuvaty), приму́сити pf (prymúsyty), зму́шувати impf (zmúšuvaty), зму́сити pf (zmúsyty)
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to force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type
Translations to be checked
Further reading
- “coerce”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “coerce”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.