Usually means: Forced to do something unwillingly.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. compelled: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. compelled: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. compelled: Collins English Dictionary
  4. compelled: Vocabulary.com
  5. Compelled, compelled: Wordnik
  6. compelled: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. compelled: Wiktionary
  8. compelled: Dictionary.com
  9. compelled: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Compelled: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Compelled: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. compelled: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. compelled: Free Dictionary
  14. compelled: Dictionary/thesaurus
  15. compelled: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  16. Compelled: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. compelled: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. compelled: 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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