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What does compelled mean?

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Verb
  1. simple past tense and past participle of compel
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They were forlorn, dejected, and pleading, yet so serenely resolved he was compelled to do as she asked.
If you don't obey the higher law of prudence by watching your step on an icy day, you will be compelled to obey the lower law of gravity.
At the time I didn't like it, but later, when I found the song in an opportunity shop, I was compelled to buy it.
Three seconds later I was compelled to pat the floor in token of surrender.
We saw Fritz try to get several other balloons but the anti-aircraft guns compelled him to fly high and so he could not make a direct hit.
He was driven by feelings of resentment and hatred, and felt compelled not only to defeat his enemies, but to humiliate them.

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