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Seduction vs Coerced - What's the difference?

seduction | coerced |

As a noun seduction

is seduction.

As a verb coerced is

(coerce), being forced.

seduction

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of seducing.
  • Seduction is the fine art of manipulating people based on physical attraction and desire.
  • (dated, legal, in English common law) The felony of, as a man, inducing a previously chaste unmarried female to engage in sexual intercourse on a promise of marriage.
  • Anagrams

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    coerced

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (coerce), being forced

  • 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