terpaksaBahasa Indonesia

force, have, make, cause, coerce

Common #2,612 of the corpus · 42.8 per million words · 182,675 occurrences

From paksa (ter-) · common, #4,733

Verb

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, paksa, memaksakan, memerah, memeras, menjepit

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Adjective

Lacking spontaneity, not natural

English: constrained, forced, strained

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