Verb

• S: (v) coerce, hale, squeeze, pressure, force (to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means) "She forced him to take a job in the city"; "He squeezed her for information"
• direct troponym / full troponym
• S: (v) turn up the heat, turn up the pressure (apply great or increased pressure) "The Democrats turned up the heat on their candidate to concede the election"
• S: (v) drive (to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly) "She is driven by her passion"
• S: (v) bludgeon (overcome or coerce as if by using a heavy club) "The teacher bludgeoned the students into learning the math formulas"
• S: (v) steamroller, steamroll (bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure) "The Senator steamrollered the bill to defeat"
• S: (v) squeeze for (squeeze someone for money, information, etc.)
• S: (v) dragoon, sandbag, railroad (compel by coercion, threats, or crude means) "They sandbagged him to make dinner for everyone"
• S: (v) terrorize, terrorise (coerce by violence or with threats)
• S: (v) bring oneself (cause to undertake a certain action, usually used in the negative) "He could not bring himself to call his parents"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• cause
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame