compel🔊

(archaic, literally) To drive together, round up.

To overpower; to subdue.

To force, constrain or coerce.

To exact, extort, (make) produce by force.

(obsolete) To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.

(obsolete) To gather or unite in a crowd or company.

(obsolete) To call forth; to summon.