{"id":88,"date":"2008-06-19T00:31:19","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T00:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/?p=88"},"modified":"2021-02-03T17:23:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T23:23:24","slug":"compel-vs-impel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/definitions\/compel-vs-impel\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Compel<\/em> vs. <em>Impel<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both <em>compel<\/em> and <em>impel<\/em> contain the idea of using physical or other force to cause something to be done.<\/p>\n<p><em>Compel<\/em> means to constrain someone in some way to yield or do what one wishes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Examples:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>to compel a debtor to pay<br \/>\nFate compels us to face danger and trouble.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Impel<\/em> means to provide a strong force, motive, or incentive toward a certain end.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Examples:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>The wind impelled the ship.<br \/>\nCuriosity impels her to ask questions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It might help, in some instances, to think of <em>impel<\/em> as the carrot and <em>compel<\/em> as the stick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both compel and impel contain the idea of using physical or other force to cause something to be done. Compel means to constrain someone in some way to yield or do what one wishes. Examples: to compel a debtor to pay Fate compels us to face danger and trouble. Impel means to provide a strong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-definitions"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}