Compel

1. v. i. To make one yield or submit.
2. v. t. To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force.
3. v. t. To take by force or violence; to seize; to exact; to extort.
4. v. t. To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.
5. v. t. To gather or unite in a crowd or company.
6. v. t. To call forth; to summon.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.