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Term: OBSTRICT
Definition: Obstrict means to force someone to do something they may not want to do. It's like when your mom tells you to clean your room and you don't want to, but she makes you do it anyway. Obstrictiveness is the quality of being coercive, or making someone do something they don't want to do. Obstrictive is an adjective that describes something that is forcing or coercing someone to do something.
Definition: To coerce.
Example: The teacher obstricted the students to complete their homework by threatening to deduct marks.
Explanation: In this example, the teacher used coercion to make the students complete their homework. The threat of deducting marks was a potential force that made the students comply with the teacher's instructions.
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