Definitions
using force to cause something to occur
Word origin
Borrowed from Middle French compulsion, from Late Latin compulsiō, from Latin compellere (“to compel, coerce”); see compel.
Used in a sentence
“During the basketball game, I had a sudden compulsion to have a smoke.”
“From the opening of the City & South London Railway independent electric locomotives were used under compulsion of the Board of Trade.”
“But Treaty translator and Ottawa leader Andrew Blackbird described the Treaty as made “not with the free will of the Indians, but by compulsion.””
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Irresistible urge”10 letters
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