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📖 Определения и значения для слова compulsion

📒 strong pressure that makes somebody do something that they do not want to do

  • compulsion (to do something) You are under no compulsion to pay immediately.
  • compulsion (on somebody) to do something There are no compulsions on students to attend classes.
  • The legal system is based on compulsion.

📒 a strong desire to do something, especially something that is wrong, silly or dangerous

  • He felt a great compulsion to tell her everything.
  • Obsessions and compulsions often develop in people who live stressful lives.
  • He felt a great compulsion to drive too fast.
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