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compel

/kəmˈpɛl/

US pronunciation

American sound/kəmˈpɛl/

kəmˈpɛl

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: 2nd syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

kəm - ˈpɛl -> compel

Myanmar meaning

(v) အတင်းအကျပ်ခိုင်းသည်။ မဖြစ်မနေလုပ်စေသည်။ အကျပ်ကိုင်သည်။ မရအရယူသည်။ (အခြေအနေက)တောင်းဆိုသည်။ လှုံ့ဆော်သည်။ ဖမ်းစားသည်။ အလွန်စိတ်ဝင်စားဖွယ်ကောင်းသော။ ဆွဲ ဆောင်သော။ လက်ခံရမည်ဖြစ်သော။ သဘောတူရမည်ဖြစ်သော။

Full entry

compel /kǝm'pel/ v (-ll- )

၁။ (fml ) အတင်းအကျပ်ခိုင်းသည်။ မဖြစ်မနေလုပ်စေသည်။ အကျပ်ကိုင်သည်။
We cannot compel you to (do it), but we think you should. ❍ I was compelled to (ie I had to) acknowledge the force of his argument. ❍ If the board approved the proposal I should feel compelled to resign. Compare IMPEL
၂။ (fml ) (က) မရအရယူသည်။ (အခြေအနေက)တောင်းဆိုသည်။ You can compel obedience, but not affection. ❍ Circumstances have compelled a change of plan.
(ခ) (not in the continuous tenses) လှုံ့ဆော်သည်။ ဖမ်းစားသည်။ His courage compels universal admiration. ❍ music that compels an audience's attention.
❏ compelling adj
(က) အလွန်စိတ်ဝင်စားဖွယ်ကောင်းသော။ ဆွဲ ဆောင်သော။
a compelling novel/account/story.
(ခ) လက်ခံရမည်ဖြစ်သော။ သဘောတူရမည်ဖြစ်သော။
a compelling reason/argument. Compare COMPULSION

More examples

[compel someone to do something] : The order compelled him to appear as a witness.
[feel compelled to do something] : I feel compelled to write to thank you.

Synonyms

force, induce, require, coerce, oblige, make, twist somebody's arm, lean on, bulldoze, concuss, constrain, crack down, dragoon, drive, enforce, exact, hustle, impel, make necessary, necessitate, put the arm on, put the chill on, restrain, shotgun, squeeze, throw weight around, turn on the heat, urge

Antonyms

block, check, delay, deter, discourage, dissuade, halt, hinder, impede, leave alone, obstruct, stop

Cross references

force induce require coerce oblige make twist somebody's arm lean on bulldoze concuss constrain crack down dragoon drive enforce exact hustle impel make necessary necessitate put the arm on put the chill on restrain shotgun squeeze throw weight around turn on the heat urge

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