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Meanings of compulsion in English

Portuguese
coerção
Catalan
coerció

The use of force or intimidation to obtain compliance.

        coerção
        Portuguese
        obsessão
        Catalan
        obsessió
        Spanish
        obsesión

        An irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will.

              obsessão

              An urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid.

                    Usage of compulsion in English
                    1
                    The compulsion to try just-one-more-thing to fix a problem before going home.
                    Essential system administration, 3rd edition
                    2
                    However, for obvious reasons, they felt no compulsion to share their secret.
                    Halo Cryptum
                    3
                    There shouldn't be a technology-driven compulsion to work in a certain way.
                    The Guardian
                    4
                    It just doesn't happen without serious derangement-orsome kind of magical compulsion.
                    Spells
                    5
                    There was some pleasure in the power, and a certain compulsion too.
                    The darkest road
                    6
                    But now he saw that with the power came a deep compulsion.
                    The Wyrmling Horde
                    7
                    He told Morning Report that the compulsion recommendation was on the table.
                    Radio NZ
                    8
                    Loneliness is a passive compulsion; to binge, I need only do nothing.
                    The Guardian
                    9
                    Pinball machines create an unstoppable compulsion!-italso miscategorizes what addiction really is.
                    Wired
                    10
                    There is absolutely no compulsion, by anyone, of anyone, at any time.
                    Jem
                    11
                    Such a compulsion in past times would have been called a geas.
                    Halo Cryptum
                    12
                    The creative impulse was everywhere replacing fear and compulsion in human motives.
                    What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War
                    13
                    So said the books, but he still felt a compulsion and prying.
                    Servant of a dark god
                    14
                    Within a week, dozens more had been overcome by the same compulsion.
                    The Guardian
                    15
                    I felt the compulsion begin even before I returned to the city.
                    The Sky Is Falling
                    16
                    They then refused to pay under compulsion; and a complete deadlock ensued.
                    The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton
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                    Translations for compulsion
                    Spanish
                    obsesión
                    Compulsion through the time
                    Compulsion across language varieties
                    United Kingdom
                    Common
                    Ireland
                    Common
                    United States of America
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