To Coerce

1. (transitive) To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
2. (transitive) To use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in an attempt to compel one to act against their will.
3. (transitive, computing) To force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type.

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