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coerced

/koh-ursd/US // koʊˈɜrsd //

被胁迫的,被胁迫,受胁迫的,受胁迫

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : forced or compelled through intimidation or authority, especially without regard for individual volition: A judge decided that key evidence, obtained from a coerced 14-year-old boy, was unreliable.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbcompel, press

Examples

  • The report alleges that the workers were likely to have been forced or coerced, but it did not offer proof confirming the work terms and conditions.

  • A Northern Virginia attorney was arrested in Miami on Thursday and accused of coercing underage girls into sexual activity.

  • Monticello and Mount Vernon flourished only because of the coerced labor of people who had been forcibly recast as Jupiter, Caesar, Hercules and Cupid.

  • Uber is facing a class-action lawsuit over Proposition 22 that alleges the company is illegally coercing its drivers to support the ballot measure that seeks to keep workers classified as independent contractors.

  • During the call, she claimed that she was coerced into pleading guilty to two other drunken driving charges after being released from a hospital and that her discipline case in 2013 had no merit.

  • Once people with ID are arrested, they are particularly susceptible to making coerced and often false confessions.

  • No doubt, there are wrongful convictions that result from misidentification and coerced confessions.

  • The police eventually obtained two written confessions that the brothers would describe as coerced.

  • Then she allegedly coerced a female employee into having sex with her.

  • Her mother, from the United States, had been coerced by friends into organizing the operation.

  • A meeting of the canons who had fled from Lige, and their brethren who had been coerced into voting, was held at Namur.

  • "A machine cannot be coerced," the robot-confessor told him.

  • So Forbes had coerced and terrified soldiers of his who were far superior to him in bulk and brawn.

  • Alice went into her arms, eager to be coerced and decided for: "And you really think it is my duty to go?"

  • Specs coerced Felix into the hall and warned him to go home and behave himself like a good dog.