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coact

American

[koh-akt] / koʊˈækt /

verb (used with or without object)

to do or act together.

Other Word Forms

coactor noun

Etymology

Origin of coact

1375–1425 for earlier adj. senses “compelled or forced (to do something)”; 1600–10 for current (intransitive) sense; late Middle English; co-, act

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I'll have none of this coacted, unnatural dumbness in my house, in a family where I govern.

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