compulse

present singular third person compulses · participle present compulsing · participle past compulsed · past compulsed

1. To force, constrain, or obligate.

   I didn't choose to. I was compulsed.

   1987, John Patrick Shanley, The Dreamer Examines His Pillow, →ISBN, page 14

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   However, a person can be more or less compulsed as it is possible for the human person to become enlightened, face and work with the particular compulsive style one as adopted.

   1987, Maureen Conroy, Growing in Love and Freedom, →ISBN, page 20

   I'm damned tired of being impressed into service, compulsed into doing things I hate to do.

   2010, William A. Owens, Three Friends: Roy Bedichek, J. Frank Dobie, Walter Prescott Webb, →ISBN

   We are compulsed to this place and put into information that is very twisted already.

   2012, Julie Rupert, Corld, →ISBN, page 50

2. To behave in a compulsive manner.

   Fantasize about sex instead of obsessing and compulsing.

   1997, Mary McClure Goulding, Robert L. Goulding, Changing Lives Through Redecision Therapy, →ISBN, page 207

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   Howard, stop talking! I asked a simple question. You gave me one of your more-than-I-will-ever- want-to-know answers. You are compulsing again.

   2003, Howard C. Hoffman, Feasting with My King, →ISBN, page 139

   ...where if one is not compulsing, then she is in a state of withdrawal from all activities and social interactions, as even the smallest things can trigger the obsessive fixation.

   2013, Vira Burmenko -, My Key to Immortality: Tuning Your Mind into the Life of Universal Love, →ISBN