coerced

American  

[koh-ursd] / koʊˈɜrsd /

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.

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verb

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

Other Word Forms

• uncoerced adjective

Etymology

Origin of coerced

coerce ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

“It’s not forced on you, because then it’s fake, man. If it’s coerced, I don’t buy it.”

From Los Angeles Times

Johnson added that he needed further clarity about safeguards to ensure medics were satisfied that patients understood the decision they were making, and were not being coerced by anyone else.

From BBC

But not since 1903, the year Theodore Roosevelt coerced Colombia to relinquish what became the Panama Canal, has a U.S. president forced a foreign government to give Washington significant land.

From The Wall Street Journal

Sure enough, the Taliban launched Chinese-made rockets at the base after dark, planted there, we were told, by farmers who had been either bribed or coerced into doing so.

From BBC

It said its doctrine was that giving must be "voluntary, in keeping with one's means and never coerced or demanded".

From BBC

Related Words

• compelled
• contrived
• enforced
• involuntary
• mandatory
• unwilling