Compel vs. Coppel — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Compel and Coppel
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Compel
To force (a person) to do something; drive or constrain
The court compelled the company to pay full restitution. My conscience compels me to speak out.
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Coppel
Coppel is a nationwide department store in Mexico based in Culiacán, Sinaloa and founded in 1941. It is noted for extending easy credit and for enabling payment of purchases via twice-monthly installments.Coppel began with its creator Enrique Coppel Tamayo who set up shop in Mazatlán, later moving to Culiacán.
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Compel
To necessitate or require, as by force of circumstance; demand
Growing riots compelled the evacuation of the embassy.
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Coppel
Obsolete spelling of cupel
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Compel
To exert a strong, irresistible force on; sway
"The land, in a certain, very real way, compels the minds of the people" (Barry Lopez).
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Coppel
Obsolete spelling of cupel
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Compel
To drive together, round up en
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Coppel
See Cupel.
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Compel
(transitive) To overpower; to subdue.
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Compel
(transitive) To force, constrain or coerce.
Logic compels the wise, while fools feel compelled by emotions.
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Compel
(transitive) To exact, extort, (make) produce by force.
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Compel
(obsolete) To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.
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Compel
(obsolete) To gather or unite in a crowd or company.
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Compel
(obsolete) To call forth; to summon.
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Compel
To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force.
Wolsey . . . compelled the people to pay up the whole subsidy at once.
And they compel one Simon . . . to bear his cross.
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Compel
To take by force or violence; to seize; to exact; to extort.
Commissions, which compel from eachThe sixth part of his substance.
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Compel
To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.
Easy sleep their weary limbs compelled.
I compel all creatures to my will.
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Compel
To gather or unite in a crowd or company.
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Compel
To call forth; to summon.
She had this knight from far compelled.
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Compel
To make one yield or submit.
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Compel
Force or compel somebody to do something;
We compel all students to fill out this form
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Compel
Make someone do something
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