"compulse" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "compulsing",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "compulsed",
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      "form": "compulsed",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1987, John Patrick Shanley, The Dreamer Examines His Pillow, →ISBN, page 14:",
          "text": "I didn't choose to. I was compulsed.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1987, Maureen Conroy, Growing in Love and Freedom, →ISBN, page 20:",
          "text": "However, a person can be more or less compulsed as it is possible for the human person to become enlightened, face and work with the particular compulsive style one as adopted.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, William A. Owens, Three Friends: Roy Bedichek, J. Frank Dobie, Walter Prescott Webb, →ISBN:",
          "text": "I'm damned tired of being impressed into service, compulsed into doing things I hate to do.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Julie Rupert, Corld, →ISBN, page 50:",
          "text": "We are compulsed to this place and put into information that is very twisted already.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "To force, constrain, or obligate."
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          "obligate"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997, Mary McClure Goulding, Robert L. Goulding, Changing Lives Through Redecision Therapy, →ISBN, page 207:",
          "text": "Fantasize about sex instead of obsessing and compulsing.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Howard C. Hoffman, Feasting with My King, →ISBN, page 139:",
          "text": "Howard, stop talking! I asked a simple question. You gave me one of your more-than-I-will-ever- want-to-know answers. You are compulsing again.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Vira Burmenko -, My Key to Immortality: Tuning Your Mind into the Life of Universal Love, →ISBN:",
          "text": "...where if one is not compulsing, then she is in a state of withdrawal from all activities and social interactions, as even the smallest things can trigger the obsessive fixation.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To behave in a compulsive manner."
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      "form": "compulsing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "compulsed",
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        "participle",
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          "ref": "1987, John Patrick Shanley, The Dreamer Examines His Pillow, →ISBN, page 14:",
          "text": "I didn't choose to. I was compulsed.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1987, Maureen Conroy, Growing in Love and Freedom, →ISBN, page 20:",
          "text": "However, a person can be more or less compulsed as it is possible for the human person to become enlightened, face and work with the particular compulsive style one as adopted.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, William A. Owens, Three Friends: Roy Bedichek, J. Frank Dobie, Walter Prescott Webb, →ISBN:",
          "text": "I'm damned tired of being impressed into service, compulsed into doing things I hate to do.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Julie Rupert, Corld, →ISBN, page 50:",
          "text": "We are compulsed to this place and put into information that is very twisted already.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "To force, constrain, or obligate."
      ],
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          "constrain",
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        {
          "ref": "1997, Mary McClure Goulding, Robert L. Goulding, Changing Lives Through Redecision Therapy, →ISBN, page 207:",
          "text": "Fantasize about sex instead of obsessing and compulsing.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Howard C. Hoffman, Feasting with My King, →ISBN, page 139:",
          "text": "Howard, stop talking! I asked a simple question. You gave me one of your more-than-I-will-ever- want-to-know answers. You are compulsing again.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Vira Burmenko -, My Key to Immortality: Tuning Your Mind into the Life of Universal Love, →ISBN:",
          "text": "...where if one is not compulsing, then she is in a state of withdrawal from all activities and social interactions, as even the smallest things can trigger the obsessive fixation.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To behave in a compulsive manner."
      ],
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