coerce

1. (transitive) To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.transitive

2. (transitive) To use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in an attempt to compel one to act against their will.Examples: "They coerced their children into going to the country park."; "A woman who freely engages in any of these activities, or who rejects anti-porn dogma, is thought to be coerced, brainwashed, an apologist of the patriarchy or a "social man." A woman who agrees that she has been coerced into one of these activities will be honored by anti-porners. The opinions of the rest of us are routinely discounted."Synonyms: hustletransitive

3. (transitive, computing) To force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type.transitive