delta1 wrote:he DID compel my wife to launder his tighty whiteys...
From the New Oxford American Dictionary:
compel | kəmˈpel |
verb (compels, compelling, compelled) [with object and infinitive]
force or oblige (someone) to do something: [with object and infinitive] : a sense of duty compelled Harry to answer her questions.
• bring about (something) by the use of force or pressure: they may compel a witness's attendance at court by issue of a summons.
• literary drive forcibly: by heav'n's high will compell'd from shore to shore.