coerced

[koh-ursd]

adjective

1. forced or compelled through intimidation or authority, especially without regard for individual volition.

   A judge decided that key evidence, obtained from a coerced 14-year-old boy, was unreliable.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of coerce.

Other Word Forms

• uncoerced adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of coerced¹

coerce ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

“He had no reason to think that any woman was coerced into a forced marriage.”

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On Friday, they spent the entire four hours allocated for the day discussing a group of 21 amendments on safeguards designed to prevent people being coerced or encouraged into an assisted death.

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He said doctors had a legal right to strike and should not be "bullied or coerced" into working.

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A firsthand account by an escaped slave who became a famous abolitionist and orator, this memoir reframed slavery as coerced labor.

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His supporters say that in the days following his arrest in Jalandhar, he was tortured and coerced into signing a false confession to participation in the killings.

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• compelled 
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• involuntary 
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