The word 迫使 is a compound verb formed through the combination of two meaningful characters (morphemes): 迫 (pò), which means "to press" or "to force", and 使 (shǐ), which means "to cause" or "to make". In this construction, 迫 acts as an adverbial modifier describing the manner of the action, intensifying the sense of coercion, while 使 is the core verb meaning "to cause". Therefore, the term syntactically means "to cause by force" or "to compel", with the first character modifying the second to create a single lexical unit that expresses a stronger, more specific sense of forceful causation than either character could convey alone.