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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
compel/kəmˈpel/

▶verb (compels, compelling, compelled)

1 force or oblige to do something.
■ bring about by force or pressure.

2 (as adj. compelling) powerfully evoking attention or admiration.

– derivatives
compellingly adverb.

– origin ME: from L. compellere, from com- ‘together’ + pellere ‘drive’.

'compel' also found in these Oxford entries:

cogent - confront - constrain - drive - eject - enforce - force - make - necessitate - nim - obligate - siege - squat - swear

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