Definitions for compels

compels com·pel

Spelling: [kuh m-pel]
IPA: /kəmˈpɛl/

Compels is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 222 anagrams from letters in compels (celmops).

Definitions for compels

verb (used with object)

  1. to force or drive, especially to a course of action:
  2. to secure or bring about by force.
  3. to force to submit; subdue.
  4. to overpower.
  5. Archaic. to drive together; unite by force; herd.

verb (used without object)

  1. to use force.
  2. to have a powerful and irresistible effect, influence, etc.

Origin of compels

1350-1400; Middle English compellen (Anglo-French) Latin compellere to crowd, force, equivalent to com- com- + pellere to push, drive

Examples for compels

Send an army into Attica, and compel the Athenians to withdraw their forces from Potidaea.

Which brings us to the images that compel our attention today.

Owen will have the power to compel the production of witnesses and documents from the British security and intelligence services.

These laws surround us and compel us; sometimes they wound us.

No one shall ever compel me to paint a picture again with so much labour.

Will you then ostracize the South and compel the abolition of slavery?

“The government cannot compel a nonbeliever to take an oath that affirms the existence of a supreme being,” Miller added.

And the truth that language changes over time does not compel us to endorse any particular change.

It is “an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will” by spilling blood, and lots of it.

If he does not mind being whipped, there is nothing to compel him to work for his master.

Word Value for compels
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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