The participles compelling and compelled are used as adjectives (the first more often than the second). There is also an adjective related to the noun compulsion, which is compulsory.
"The courts cannot compel you to give evidence against yourself." "What could compel a man to deliberately drive off a cliff?"
The abstract noun form of the verb to compel is the gerund, compelling. A related abstract noun is compulsion.
delay, hinder, impede.
compel
Urge, coerce, enforce, oblige, necessitate...
You can't compel me to answer this question.
I will compel him to tell the truth.I wish I could compel my cat to come when I call.
His sister compelled him to go to a Justin Bieber concert, but after the concert he became a Belieber <3
The evidence presented in court was compelling enough to compel the jury to reach a verdict in favor of the defendant.
The noun form of compel is compulsion.
compel
Her impassioned speech compels the audience to take action.
"The courts cannot compel you to give evidence against yourself." "What could compel a man to deliberately drive off a cliff?"
The noun form of "compel" is "compulsion."
The root word from compel is "pel", which means to drive or urge.
Tagalog translation of compel: pilitin
Very hard to answer this question without knowing what the motion to compel was requiring of you.