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Purse's tight, increase force (10)

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I believe the answer is:

pressurise

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'force' is the definition.
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'purse's tight increase' is the wordplay.
'tight' indicates an anagram (tight can mean drunk).
'increase' becomes 'rise' (rising is a kind of increasing).
'purses' is an anagram of 'pressu'.
'pressu'+'rise'='PRESSURISE'

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(Another definition for pressurise that I've seen is " Attempt to coerce (into doing something)".)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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