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What is the difference between coerce and wheedle?

coerce | wheedle |

As verbs the difference between coerce and wheedle

is that coerce is to restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb while wheedle is to cajole or attempt to persuade by flattery.

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 ----

    wheedle

    English

    Verb

    and (intransitive)
  • To cajole or attempt to persuade by flattery.
  • * 1977 , ("The Wife of Bath's Tale"), Penguin Classics, p. 290:
    • Though he had beaten me in every bone / He still could wheedle me to love.
    I'd like one of those, too, if you can wheedle him into telling you where he got it.
  • To obtain by flattery, guile, or trickery.
  • * Congreve
    • A deed of settlement of the best part of her estate, which I wheedled out of her.

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