0 to force someone to do something:
[ + to infinitive ] As a schoolboy he was compelled to wear shorts even in winter.
formal The new circumstances compelled a change in policy.
Over the years her work has compelled universal admiration and trust.
1 to force someone to do something:
There is a tension between the phrase and every translation compelled to resolve it.
While his definition may be simplistic by modern critical standards, there is kind of brutality to it that makes it compelling.
The clinician is compelled to hold the balance between the scales of laboratory data on the one hand and stochastic theory on the other.
The second element in the right of silence is that no one should be compelled to betray himself.
In some cases a patentee can be compelled to grant a licence to use his patent on reasonable terms.
Feminist analyses of them are compelled to co-exist with their uncertainties, and to make links with other, non-psychological discourses, such as discourses of gender.
In 1543 an earth-centered cosmos was the physical orthodoxy of the day, supported by philosophical arguments that, at the time, were peculiarly compelling.
Thus, there is a compelling need to identify factors in early childhood that are associated with chronic versus self-limiting patterns of externalizing behavior.