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Coerce vs Dragoon - What's the difference?

coerce | dragoon | Synonyms |

Dragoon is a synonym of coerce.


As verbs the difference between coerce and dragoon

is that coerce is to restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb while dragoon is to force someone into doing something; to coerce.

As a noun dragoon is

(lb) a horse soldier; a cavalryman, who uses a horse for mobility, but fights dismounted.

coerce

English

Verb

(coerc)
  • To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
  • to use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in attempt to compel one to act against his will.
  • (computing) to force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type.

    • Synonyms

    * compel * bully * dragoon

    Derived terms

    * coercion * coercer * coercee * coercible

    External links

    * * English transitive verbs ----

    dragoon

    English

    (wikipedia dragoon)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (lb) A horse soldier; a cavalryman, who uses a horse for mobility, but fights dismounted.
  • *
  • *:His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon ; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;.
  • A carrier of a dragon musket.
  • A variety of pigeon.
  • :(Clarke)

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To force someone into doing something; to coerce.

    • Related terms

    * dragooner

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