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force
noun(force)
(of a law) having legal validity
Synonyms: effect,
force
noun(force)
group of people willing to obey orders
Synonyms: personnel,
Examples:
A public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens.
force
noun(force)
physical energy or intensity
Synonyms: forcefulness, strength,
Examples:
He hit with all the force he could muster.
A government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man.
force
noun(force)
a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base
Synonyms: force-out, force out, force play,
Examples:
The shortstop got the runner at second on a force.
force
verb(force)
to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means
Synonyms: coerce, hale, pressure, squeeze,
Examples:
She forced him to take a job in the city.
force
verb(force)
force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
Synonyms: drive, ram,
force
verb(force)
urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate
Synonyms: impel,
force
verb(force)
move with force
Synonyms: push,
force
verb(force)
impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably
Synonyms: thrust,
Examples:
She forced her diet fads on him.
force
verb(force)
squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
Synonyms: squeeze, wedge,
force
noun(force)
a unit that is part of some military service
Synonyms: military force, military group, military unit,
Examples:
He sent Caesar a force of six thousand men.
force
noun(force)
one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority
Synonyms: power,
Examples:
May the force be with you.
The forces of evil.
force
noun(force)
an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)
Synonyms: violence,
Examples:
He may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one.
force
verb(force)
take by force
Synonyms: storm,
force
noun(force)
a group of people having the power of effective action
Examples:
He joined forces with a band of adventurers.
force
noun(force)
a powerful effect or influence
Examples:
The force of his eloquence easily persuaded them.
force
verb(force)
do forcibly; exert force
Examples:
Don't force it!.
force
noun(force)
(physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity
Examples:
Force equals mass times acceleration.

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