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compelling 音標拼音: [kəmp'ɛlɪŋ] a. 強制的,強迫性的,令人注目的 強制的,強迫性的,令人注目的 compelling adj 1: driving or forcing; " compelling ambition" 2: tending to persuade by forcefulness of argument; " new and compelling evidence" Compel \ Com* pel"\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Compelled}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Compelling}.] [ L. compellere, compulsum, to drive together, to compel, urge; com- pellere to drive: cf. OF. compellir. See { Pulse}.] 1. To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force. [ 1913 Webster] Wolsey . . . compelled the people to pay up the whole subsidy at once. -- Hallam. [ 1913 Webster] And they compel one Simon . . . to bear his cross. -- Mark xv. 21. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To take by force or violence; to seize; to exact; to extort. [ R.] [ 1913 Webster] Commissions, which compel from each The sixth part of his substance. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate. [ 1913 Webster] Easy sleep their weary limbs compelled. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] I compel all creatures to my will. -- Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To gather or unite in a crowd or company. [ A Latinism] " In one troop compelled." -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 5. To call forth; to summon. [ Obs.] -- Chapman. [ 1913 Webster] She had this knight from far compelled. -- Spenser. Syn: To force; constrain; oblige; necessitate; coerce. See { Coerce}. [ 1913 Webster] 52 Moby Thesaurus words for " compelling": actuating, acute, animating, causal, causative, clamorous, coactive, compulsive, compulsory, constraining, critical, crucial, crying, decretal, decretive, decretory, dictating, directive, driving, exigent, gripping, high- pressure, high- priority, holding, impelling, imperative, imperious, impulsive, inducive, insistent, instant, instructive, irresistible, jussive, mandating, motivating, motivational, motive, moving, obligating, obsessing, obsessional, obsessive, peremptory, pivotal, possessing, preceptive, preoccupying, prescriptive, pressing, restraining, urgent
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