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to coerce
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to force someone to do something through threats or manipulation
Ditransitive: to coerce sb to do sth | to coerce sb into sth
Examples
The criminal coerced the witness into changing their testimony through intimidation.
The authoritarian government used its power to coerce citizens into supporting a particular political ideology.
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