(13 Sep 2013, 3:02 pm)Andreos1 wrote Those words are synonyms of force, alternatives which can be used depending on the situation.
So in the example I gave: To force (verb) to cause a person or thing to follow a prescribed or dictated course.
I fully understand synonyms.
You don't seem to understand the definition, though.
To force (verb) to cause a person or thing to follow a prescribed or dictated course.
A total lack of a bus does not force anyone to do anything. It merely constrains their available choices. At worst, they must to do something else, but that is not prescribed or dictated.
My local chip shop burned down. I wasn't forced to buy a pizza - I still have the choice of pizza, Chinese, Indian takeaways, or even a Gregg's pasty. I chose to go pizza, but nobody prescribed or dictated what I should do. I wasn't forced.
Buit if you think otherwise, then you must consider the world to be a very strange place... :s