Antonym: freedom, liberty. Similar words: compulsively, expulsion, impulsive, compulsory, avulsion, convulsions, impulse, compunction. Meaning: [kəm'pʌlʃn] 
n. 1. an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid 2. an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions against your will 3. using force to cause something.
n. 1. an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid 2. an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions against your will 3. using force to cause something. 
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61 The compulsion to return may be strong, but the obstacles are huge.
62 Up until then I had sometimes seen writing as at best a compulsion and at worst a sickness.
63 If anything, Letterman thinks, these women have a compulsion to reach a higher plane of conversation that strains credulity.
64 As I warily got to my feet I felt a compulsion to retrace my steps in the direction of Jock's trench.
65 Although there was no compulsion for students to participate or even to be present, the courts ruled the statute unconstitutional.
66 The compulsion to develop physical maturity long in advance of emotional growth was irresistible.
67 The aim of arguments and discussions between supporters of rival paradigms should be persuasion rather than compulsion.
68 McClellan felt no compulsion to press into Virginia after Lee.
69 The notion of compulsion met a storm of controversy when mental health charities first got wind of the government's thoughts.
70 However, he did not seem to comprehend the possibility that self organisation and compulsion are mutually exclusive.
71 Although there was no legal compulsion, the moral obligation to pay was strong.
72 There is no compulsion to go to every dinner and one is not expected to do so.
73 Ann if over her heroin addiction and working on her compulsion to go shoplifting.
74 In cases such as the present both the concept of want of consideration and payment under implied compulsion are in play.
75 But she also felt a compulsion to talk to Louise.
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76 The boy will take his medicine only by compulsion.
77 The dipsomaniac has an uncontrollable compulsion to drink.
78 Harry says Archambault has a compulsion to write things.
79 A true shopaholic shops out of compulsion.
80 And the presence of normal microglia stopped the compulsion.
81 Most of them oppose the Communist Party under compulsion.
82 They made the prisoners do the work by compulsion.
83 Allotment without compulsion -- this is not commandism.
84 She felt a sudden compulsion to hit him.
85 Caused or conditioned by compulsion or obsession.
86 John will take his medicine only by compulsion.
87 A promise made under compulsion is of no force.
88 The kleptomaniac has a compulsion to steal.
89 They told the truth by compulsion.
90 Sweets: These must have been an escape valve for him, images of a life outside of here where he wasn't tormented by his compulsion and agoraphobic.
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