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compesce

/kəmˈpɛs/

compesce verb: to keep in check; to restrain or hold down.

Verb

compesce (third-person singular simple present compesces, present participle compescing, simple past and past participle compesced)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To keep in check; to restrain or hold down
    • And has coerced and compesced them (all that did not contrive to desert) into soldierly obedience[.]1858, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II of Prussia

compesce meaning in Bengali

compesce in Bengali

নিয়ন্ত্রণে রাখা, সংযত করা, চেপে রাখা

Forms of compesce

third-person singular presentcompesces
present participlecompescing
past participlecompesced
pastcompesced

Origin of compesce

Latin compēscō (“to restrain”).

Words that rhyme with compesce

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Questions about compesce

What does compesce mean?
Compesce means to keep in check; to restrain or hold down.
What is compesce in Bengali?
Compesce in Bengali is নিয়ন্ত্রণে রাখা, সংযত করা, চেপে রাখা. See Compesce meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is compesce?
Compesce is a verb.
How do you pronounce compesce?
Compesce is pronounced /kəmˈpɛs/.
What is the past tense of compesce?
The past tense of compesce is compesced.

Words near compesce in the dictionary

  1. compers
  2. compersion
  3. compersionism
  4. compersionist
  5. compersive
  6. compesce
  7. compesced
  8. compesces
  9. compescing
  10. compete
  11. competed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: compesce (page history and authors); compesce (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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