Past tense of coerce

Forms of coerce

Coerced in a sentence

• They coerced their children into going to the country park.
• He did not say it of his own free will, but because his captors coerced him.From the entry free will
• What satirist could then top Texas Republican Joe Barton's coerced, linguistically mangled fauxpology?2010 June 23, Ruth Marcus, “The Gulf oil disaster: when bad things happen to bad companies”, in The Seattle Times. From the entry fauxpology
• Coerced British workers had to have built the grand buildings and roads that so impressed later Romanophiles.2010, Timothy Parsons, The Rule of Empires, page 50. From the entry Romanophile
• We don't have to be manipulated, guilted, coerced, or forced into anything.1992, Melody Beattie, Codependent No More: how to stop controlling others and start caring for yourself. From the entry guilt

Meaning of coerce

1. verb To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
2. verb To use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in an attempt to compel one to act against their will.
3. verb To force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type.

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Questions about the past tense of coerce

What is the past tense of coerce?

The past tense of coerce is coerced.

What is the past participle of coerce?

The past participle of coerce is coerced.

Is coerce a regular or irregular verb?

Coerce is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.