coercing
Applying undue pressure
Coercing is using force, threats, or pressure to make someone do something against their will.
The word implies compulsion rather than persuasion—the target complies not from agreement but from fear of consequences: They accused the police of coercing confessions from suspects.
Governments coerce through law enforcement; individuals coerce through intimidation or manipulation.
Influencing through cunning
- influencingAltering someone's thinking
- persuadingInducing belief or action
- inducingCausing or bringing about
- cajolingPersuading through flattery
wheedling · pressuring · guilting · shaming · gaslighting · deceiving · exploiting · controlling
Powerfully engaging or persuasive
- pressuringExerting influence to compel
- forcingCompelling through pressure
- constrainingImposing limits upon
- obligatingCreating a binding duty
impelling · strong-arming · arm-twisting · bulldozing · railroading · steamrolling · pushing · driving
Expressing intent to harm
- bullyingAggressive repeated intimidation
- menacingConveying threat or danger
- terrorizingInstilling extreme fear
- browbeatingIntimidating with stern pressure
domineering · harassing · cowing · daunting · frightening · scaring · tyrannizing · oppressing
manipulating
Influencing through cunning
- influencingAltering someone's thinking
- persuadingInducing belief or action
- inducingCausing or bringing about
cajoling · wheedling · pressuring · guilting · shaming · gaslighting · deceiving · exploiting · controlling · grooming
compelling
Powerfully engaging or persuasive
- pressuringExerting influence to compel
- forcingCompelling through pressure
- constrainingImposing limits upon
obligating · impelling · strong-arming · arm-twisting · bulldozing · railroading · steamrolling · pushing · driving · pressing
threatening
Expressing intent to harm
- bullyingAggressive repeated intimidation
- menacingConveying threat or danger
- terrorizingInstilling extreme fear
browbeating · domineering · harassing · cowing · daunting · frightening · scaring · tyrannizing · oppressing · overpowering
- intimidationthreats, threatening, menacing, intimidate, bullying
- persuadingpersuading, convincing, urging, coaxing, influencing
- coercionduress, compelling, threat, forcing, demands
- deceptionlie, lies, lying, fake, fraud
- mistreatmentbullying, harassing, intimidating, oppressing, humiliating
- harmharming, injury, hurting, abuse, injuring
coercingallowing
Granting permission to proceed
permitting · freeing · liberating · letting · enabling
coercingpersuading
Inducing belief or action
convincing · entreating · requesting · asking · inviting
coercingencouraging
Giving confidence or hope
supporting · inspiring · motivating · reassuring · nurturing
- economic coercionMonetary pressure for compliance
- psychological coercionForcing compliance through mental pressure
- coercive controlOngoing pattern of domination
- sexual coercionForcing sexual acts through pressure
- subtle coercionIndirect pressure to comply
- coercive diplomacyThreat-based international persuasion