coerce

  1. Verb.  To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
  2. Verb.  (transitive) to use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in attempt to compel one to act against his will.
  3. Verb.  (transitive, computing) to force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type.

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