Compel is valid Scrabble Word

Is compel a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is compel valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

6 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
16 points in WWF

Definitions for COMPEL in dictionary:

VERB:

to force
force or oblige (someone) to do something
bring about (something) by the use of force or pressure
force to come or go in a particular direction
force (to be or do)
To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force.
To take by force or violence; to seize; to exact; to extort.
To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.
To gather or unite in a crowd or company.
To call forth; to summon.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to urge forcefully

Words related to COMPEL

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Words that contain COMPEL

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How to use COMPEL in a sentence

Having in mind the excusable superstition of the men, Captain Parkinson was unwilling to compel any of them to the duty.
They will find, as I have found that the only way to avoid violence is to enable them to give such expression to their feelings as to compel redress.
And here let us not forget how much more easy it is to receive foreign fleets into our ports, and foreign armies into our country, than it is to persuade or compel them to depart.
The disciplined mind of Tayoga knew how to compel sleep, and on this occasion it was needful for him to exert his will.
It is a mistake always to pin the faith to one remedy, for the varying conditions found in fowls compel a different treatment.
Judge Graham could not legally compel the mother to agree to the operation, but he told her that if she refused he would commit all her children to a home.
The chief of the army may meet the enemy under circumstances such as to induce or compel him to give battle.
On the other hand, its political institutions may be such as to compel the others to unite in attacking it in order to secure themselves.
The secular arm was ever ready to support the religious, and to compel every resident of the colony to walk in the strait and narrow way of Puritanism.
You asked for the proof of my ability to compel your employers and mine to turn over the clean leaf.

All the women and children were led over on the other side of the bank of the Drina in order to compel the Servians to stop their fire.
What a triumph for the slave who could not raise himself to his master, to compel his master to come down to his level! Jules was harsh and hard to him.
All were of the opinion that the archbishop ought not to yield, since what they were trying to compel him to do was manifestly unjust.
It was no mere question of self-pride, however, and no consideration of the tremendous interests at stake, which would compel us to continue our apparently vain attempt.
But however much you may feel yourself too high, too beautiful, too superior for me, I can compel you to come down to my level.
She could not compel her quivering lips to frame a word of excuse or reiterated resolve.
But you can, by legislation, compel the use of an article, which use will create a demand for it, and the demand will then increase its price.
Such a movement would compel the French either to fight or to fall back.
Interest and vanity Are the two things, as you tell me, That, O Cynthia! can oblige thee, That, O Nisida, can compel thee To attempt this undertaking By so many risks attended.
But in the case of an emergency the President may compel the governors of the various States to furnish the troops needed.
This must compel a reduction of the demand for the products of wage labor relative to other things, and be reflected to labor in a lower wage.
He can compel them to study the lesson, it is true, but he perceives, perhaps, that it is a weary task to them.
In the end we did a thing that may seem to some to have been rash altogether, but it was our wish to compel Alsi to fight before his force was great enough to crush us.
Schweninger a physician who was not only able to treat his complaints, but could also compel his patient to obey his orders.
Plainly the latter was seeking to compel an acknowledgment of error, but Will only patted the mouse-colored flanks.
We work all the harder at something else or compel others to work for us.
A combination so formidable would compel other nations, and our own certainly among the number, to adopt a similar organisation.

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