Usually means: Forces someone to do something.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word compels:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. compels: Merriam-Webster
  2. compels: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. compels: Collins English Dictionary
  4. compels: Vocabulary.com
  5. Compels, compels: Wordnik
  6. compels: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. compels: Wiktionary
  8. compels: Dictionary.com
  9. compels: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. compels: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. compels: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. compels: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. compels: Encyclopedia

(Note: See compel as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (compel)

verb:  (transitive, archaic, literally) To drive together, round up.
verb:  (transitive) To overpower; to subdue.
verb:  (transitive) To force, constrain or coerce.
verb:  (transitive) To exact, extort, (make) produce by force.
verb:  (obsolete) To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.
verb:  (obsolete) To gather or unite in a crowd or company.
verb:  (obsolete) To call forth; to summon.
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