coerce

英[kəʊ'ɜːs] 美[ko'ɝs]

反义词

第三人称单数: coerces;过去式: coerced;过去分词: coerced;现在分词: coercing;

（记）co 共同 erce 谐音：饿死→共同饿死→因为被强制
2. exercise => coerce （同源词）。

coerce 胁迫

co-, 强调。-erk, 限制，保护，词源同ark, arcane.

coerce: coerce: [17] The underlying etymological meaning of coerce is ‘restraining’ or ‘confining’. It comes from the Latin compound verb coercēre ‘constrain’, which was formed from the prefix co- ‘together’ and the verb arcēre ‘shut up, ward off’ (possibly a relative of Latin arca ‘chest, box’, from which English gets ark). An earlier, 15th-century, form of the English word was coherce, which came via Old French cohercier.
=> ark
coerce (v.): mid-15c., cohercen, from Middle French cohercer, from Latin coercere "to control, restrain, shut up together," from com- "together" (see co-) + arcere "to enclose, confine, contain, ward off," from PIE *ark- "to hold, contain, guard" (see arcane). Related: Coerced; coercing. No record of the word between late 15c. and mid-17c.; its reappearance 1650s is perhaps a back-formation from coercion.

1. Clark had somehow been able to coerce Jenny into doing whatever he told her to do.: 不知是用什么办法，克拉克总能让珍妮对他言听计从。

2. Obama would deploy soft power the power attract rather than coerce.: 奥巴马将运用“巧实力外交”的拉拢性力量取代强制性力量.