Force and Threaten

Force

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

Usage example: hunger forced the refugees to steal

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Threaten and force are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Threaten" instead a verb "Force".

Threaten verb - To remain poised to inflict harm, danger, or distress on.

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Force and threaten are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Force" instead a verb "Threaten".

Nearby Words: threatening, threat

humanity	force humanity	threaten humanity
character	force character	threaten character
woman	force woman	threaten woman
people	force people	threaten people
Other words: children, family, someone, way, characters, world, mother, anyone, everyone, son, daughter, humans, kids, enemies, heroes.

Gargantia is forced to power down and remain as silent as possible when a large swarm of whale-squids pass by, and Ledo is forced at gun point to let them pass by rather than attack such an overwhelming force and threaten the safety of the ships.

Source: Anime / Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet
Go Mad from the Isolation: The girls who don't kill the Protagonist often force him to isolate from everyone and threaten him by force.

Source: Audio Play / Yandere No Onna No Ko
Because of her loyalty to her, she is willing to threaten Chitose with a knife to try and force Mutsumi to save Marika when the teacher is captured by an insect, and even force herself onto Kai sexually to convince him to help her save the teacher (and Mutsumi by default) later when that fails.

Source: Manga / Kyochuu Rettou

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