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compulsion
abstraction, charisma, duress, force majeure, impulsion, melancholia, necessity, power, psychomotor disturbance, thrust, wattage
Definition
n.
an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid
Last update: August 11, 2015
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Though pressed into rugby under
compulsion
I began to enjoy the game.
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Along with my obsessive compulsive disorder comes the
compulsion
to repeatedly check doors to ensure they are locked.
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I like being me and feel no
compulsion
to dress like celebrities I do not know.
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The court represented that, as no
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was used, there was nothing illegal in this proceeding.
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Highcamp was a plain, bald-headed man, who only talked under
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.
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Well, the hounds ate it through the
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of hunger.
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Compulsion failed to bring in the skilled ratings urgently required.
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, would surrender, as a boon to man, without
compulsion
, his supposed omnipotence.
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‘It was under
compulsion
: we shall not acknowledge it.
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’ And he still clung to my arm with the pressure of friendly
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