compulse

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See also: compulsé

English

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compulse (third-person singular simple present compulses, present participle compulsing, simple past and past participle compulsed)

  1. To force, constrain, or obligate.
    • 1987, John Patrick Shanley, The Dreamer Examines His Pillow, →ISBN, page 14:
      I didn't choose to. I was compulsed.
    • 1987, Maureen Conroy, Growing in Love and Freedom, →ISBN, page 20:
      However, a person can be more or less compulsed as it is possible for the human person to become enlightened, face and work with the particular compulsive style one as adopted.
    • 2010, William A. Owens, Three Friends: Roy Bedichek, J. Frank Dobie, Walter Prescott Webb, →ISBN:
      I'm damned tired of being impressed into service, compulsed into doing things I hate to do.
    • 2012, Julie Rupert, Corld, →ISBN, page 50:
      We are compulsed to this place and put into information that is very twisted already.
  2. To behave in a compulsive manner.
    • 1997, Mary McClure Goulding, Robert L. Goulding, Changing Lives Through Redecision Therapy, →ISBN, page 207:
      Fantasize about sex instead of obsessing and compulsing.
    • 2003, Howard C. Hoffman, Feasting with My King, →ISBN, page 139:
      Howard, stop talking! I asked a simple question. You gave me one of your more-than-I-will-ever- want-to-know answers. You are compulsing again.
    • 2013, Vira Burmenko -, My Key to Immortality: Tuning Your Mind into the Life of Universal Love, →ISBN:
      ...where if one is not compulsing, then she is in a state of withdrawal from all activities and social interactions, as even the smallest things can trigger the obsessive fixation.
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compulse

  1. inflection of compulser:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

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compulse

  1. vocative masculine singular of compulsus

Portuguese

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compulse

  1. inflection of compulsar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

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compulse

  1. inflection of compulsar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative