Coerce and Help

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Coerce verb - To cause (a person) to give in to pressure.

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Help is an antonym for coerce in compel topic.

Nearby Words: coercion, coercive, coercible, coercing

Help verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.

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Coerce is an antonym for help.

Nearby Words: helpful, helped, helpless, helper, helping

girl	coerce girl	help girl
party	coerce party	help party
character	coerce character	help character
man	coerce man	help man
Other words: people, boy, group, children, someone, crew, team, victim, bit, father, anyone, player, humans, friends, players, heroes.

In Questionable Content, Ellen wears short-shorts to coerce Steve to help Marten move.

Source: I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!
His attempts to coerce the captive fail, but Shego's insulting suggestion that he simply lacks the ability to help (with Drakken joining in when he sees that it's working) manipulate him into proving himself by cooperating fully.

Source: Fence Painting
In a rare case of the victim taking a hostage to coerce the villain, the senator's daughter in The Silence of the Lambs gets ahold of Buffalo Bill's poodle and threatens to break its neck if he doesn't let her phone for help.

Source: Hostage Situation

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