English-Portuguese translations for coerce

• coagir
  Este anticomunismo quer, também, coagir os partidos comunistas, que defendem firmemente os seus princípios, a abandonar estes últimos e a integrarem-se. It also wants to coerce the Communist parties, who stand firmly by their principles, into abandoning them and integrating.
  É preciso que eles reconheçam que a Constituição Europeia está morta e que nenhuma campanha para coagir as massas populares poderá ressuscitá-la. They need to accept the fact that the European Constitution is dead and no campaign to coerce the masses will resurrect it.
  Faz parte da estratégia global e integrada dos imperialistas para registar dados a fim de controlar, coagir e aterrorizar quem se lhes opõe. It forms part of the global and integrated strategy of the imperialists to record data in order to control, coerce and terrorise anyone who opposes them.
• forçar

Definition of coerce

• To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb
• To force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type

Related words

• coercive
• coercion
• coercible
• coercibleness
• coercivity
• coerced sterilization
• type coercion