What part of speech is compels?

Compels can be categorized as a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. compels is a verb, present, 3rd person singular of compel (infinitive).

Inflections

Verb

What does compels mean?

Definitions

Verb

compel - force somebody to do something; "We compel all students to fill out this form"
compel - necessitate or exact; "the water shortage compels conservation"

Examples of compels

#   Sentence  
1. verb What compels you to meow?
2. verb Apparently, the computer compels me to not see the interesting discussion.
3. verb Then Dido, struck with wonder at the sight / of one so great and in so strange a plight, / "O Goddess-born! what fate through dangers sore, / what force to savage coasts compels thy flight?"
4. verb That is the vilest of all tyranny where a man compels the woman he says he loves, to endure the agony of bearing children that she does not want, and for whom, as is the rule rather than the exception, they cannot properly provide.
5. verb When one announces "My my Tacubaya, if you don't know there don't go there", what this person actually refers to is the absence of governmental paternalism, and in certain areas of the capital, compels others to not attend those places they are unfamiliar with, where they are unaware of the terrain.
6. verb We compel all students to fill out this form.
7. verb It is estimated to have some 5,000 armed fighters, and they have pursued attacks against Israeli forces to compel them to withdraw from the Shebaa Farms, a sliver of Syrian territory that Israel annexed after the 1967 war.
8. verb Here are the revised dates for the response/reply/and hearing dates for Enron's motion to compel.
9. verb The motion to compel is now scheduled for Dec. 12 at 2p.m.
10. verb If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
11. verb Hunger is a very powerful human instinct which can compel us to extremes of behaviour.
12. verb I compel you to adhere to our master's teachings.
13. verb O Muse, assist me and inspire my song, / the various causes and the crimes relate, / for what affronted majesty, what wrong / to injured Godhead, what offence so great / Heaven's Queen resenting, with remorseless hate, / could one renowned for piety compel / to brave such troubles, and endure the weight / of toils so many and so huge. O tell / how can in heavenly minds such fierce resentment dwell?
14. verb With gushing tears I bid the pair farewell. / "Live happy ye, whose destinies are o'er; / we still must wander where the Fates compel."
15. verb Shall we compel you to accept it ?
Sentence  
verb
What compels you to meow?
Apparently, the computer compels me to not see the interesting discussion.
Then Dido, struck with wonder at the sight / of one so great and in so strange a plight, / "O Goddess-born! what fate through dangers sore, / what force to savage coasts compels thy flight?"
That is the vilest of all tyranny where a man compels the woman he says he loves, to endure the agony of bearing children that she does not want, and for whom, as is the rule rather than the exception, they cannot properly provide.
When one announces "My my Tacubaya, if you don't know there don't go there", what this person actually refers to is the absence of governmental paternalism, and in certain areas of the capital, compels others to not attend those places they are unfamiliar with, where they are unaware of the terrain.
We compel all students to fill out this form.
It is estimated to have some 5,000 armed fighters, and they have pursued attacks against Israeli forces to compel them to withdraw from the Shebaa Farms, a sliver of Syrian territory that Israel annexed after the 1967 war.
Here are the revised dates for the response/reply/and hearing dates for Enron's motion to compel.
The motion to compel is now scheduled for Dec. 12 at 2p.m.
If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
Hunger is a very powerful human instinct which can compel us to extremes of behaviour.
I compel you to adhere to our master's teachings.
O Muse, assist me and inspire my song, / the various causes and the crimes relate, / for what affronted majesty, what wrong / to injured Godhead, what offence so great / Heaven's Queen resenting, with remorseless hate, / could one renowned for piety compel / to brave such troubles, and endure the weight / of toils so many and so huge. O tell / how can in heavenly minds such fierce resentment dwell?
With gushing tears I bid the pair farewell. / "Live happy ye, whose destinies are o'er; / we still must wander where the Fates compel."
Shall we compel you to accept it ?

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