memaksakanBahasa Indonesia

force, impose, squeeze, adjure, beseech

Less common #5,971 of the corpus · 14 per million words · 59,770 occurrences

From paksa (meN-…-kan) · common, #4,733

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To cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"

English: coerce, hale, squeeze, pressure, force

Bahasa: menekan, memaksa, mendesak, terpaksa, paksa, memerah, memeras, menjepit

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