0 past simple and past participle of coerce --
1 to persuade someone forcefully to do something that they are unwilling to do: --
The court heard that the six defendants had been coerced into making a confession.
In fact, he argued, people often perform intentional actions precisely because they feel pressured or coerced to do so.
There would continue to be ethical questions about whether certain individuals accepting payment for their organs were coerced or otherwise exploited.
Like protective actions, there is no negotiation between the person who coerces and the coerced.
If one coerced others by command, menace, punishment, promise, or oath to defend error pertinaciously, one would be convicted of pertinacity.
The primary purpose of this meeting is to ensure that the donor is not coerced or influenced by monetary considerations.
Is there an imperative where society at large is coerced by technology?
While some extrinsic activities are clearly coerced, others are done choicefully and are grounded in self-accepted values and beliefs.
A different view is that one is only "coerced" when, in addition, the pressure involves the actual or threatened violation of one's rights.
