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To stuff; to lard; to farce.		 v. t.
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A waterfall; a cascade.		 n.
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Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor; might; often, an unusual degree of strength or energy; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect; especially, power to persuade, or convince, or impose obligation; pertinency; validity; special signification; as, the force of an appeal, an argument, a contract, or a term.		 n.
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Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.		 n.
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Strength or power for war; hence, a body of land or naval combatants, with their appurtenances, ready for action; -- an armament; troops; warlike array; -- often in the plural; hence, a body of men prepared for action in other ways; as, the laboring force of a plantation.		 n.
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Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things; violence.		 n.
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Validity; efficacy.		 n.
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Any action between two bodies which changes, or tends to change, their relative condition as to rest or motion; or, more generally, which changes, or tends to change, any physical relation between them, whether mechanical, thermal, chemical, electrical, magnetic, or of any other kind; as, the force of gravity; cohesive force; centrifugal force.		 n.
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To constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible; to compel by physical, moral, or intellectual means; to coerce; as, masters force slaves to labor.		 n.
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To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind.		 n.
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To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one;s will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon.		 n.
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To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.		 n.
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To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc.		 n.
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To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.		 n.
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To exert to the utmost; to urge; hence, to strain; to urge to excessive, unnatural, or untimely action; to produce by unnatural effort; as, to force a consient or metaphor; to force a laugh; to force fruits.		 n.
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To compel [an adversary or partner] to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none.		 n.
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To provide with forces; to reenforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.		 n.
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To allow the force of; to value; to care for.		 n.
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To use violence; to make violent effort; to strive; to endeavor.		 v. i.
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To make a difficult matter of anything; to labor; to hesitate; hence, to force of, to make much account of; to regard.		 v. i.
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To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter.		 v. i.
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Force Hear the Pronunciation!
To stuff; to lard; to farce.		 v. t.
Force Hear the Pronunciation!
A waterfall; a cascade.		 n.
Force Hear the Pronunciation!
Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor; might; often, an unusual degree of strength or energy; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect; especially, power to persuade, or convince, or impose obligation; pertinency; validity; special signification; as, the force of an appeal, an argument, a contract, or a term.		 n.
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Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.		 n.
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Strength or power for war; hence, a body of land or naval combatants, with their appurtenances, ready for action; -- an armament; troops; warlike array; -- often in the plural; hence, a body of men prepared for action in other ways; as, the laboring force of a plantation.		 n.
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Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things; violence.		 n.
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Validity; efficacy.		 n.
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Any action between two bodies which changes, or tends to change, their relative condition as to rest or motion; or, more generally, which changes, or tends to change, any physical relation between them, whether mechanical, thermal, chemical, electrical, magnetic, or of any other kind; as, the force of gravity; cohesive force; centrifugal force.		 n.
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To constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible; to compel by physical, moral, or intellectual means; to coerce; as, masters force slaves to labor.		 n.
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To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind.		 n.
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To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one;s will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon.		 n.
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To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.		 n.
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To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc.		 n.
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To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.		 n.
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To exert to the utmost; to urge; hence, to strain; to urge to excessive, unnatural, or untimely action; to produce by unnatural effort; as, to force a consient or metaphor; to force a laugh; to force fruits.		 n.
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To compel [an adversary or partner] to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none.		 n.
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To provide with forces; to reenforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.		 n.
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To allow the force of; to value; to care for.		 n.
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To use violence; to make violent effort; to strive; to endeavor.		 v. i.
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To make a difficult matter of anything; to labor; to hesitate; hence, to force of, to make much account of; to regard.		 v. i.
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To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter.		 v. i.
Indirect results
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Afforce To reenforce; to strengthen. v. t.
Afforcement A fortress; a fortification for defense. n.
Afforcement A reenforcement; a strengthening. n.
Counterforce An opposing force. n.
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To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold.		 v.
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To resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force, as an officer in the execution of his duty.		 v.
Deforced of Deforce imp. & p. p.
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A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right.		 n.
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Resistance to an officer in the execution of law.		 n.
Deforceor Same as Deforciant. n.
Efforce To force; to constrain; to compel to yield. v. t.
Efforced of Efforce imp. & p. p.
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To put force upon; to force; to constrain; to compel; as, to enforce obedience to commands.		 v. t.
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To make or gain by force; to obtain by force; as, to enforce a passage.		 v. t.
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To put in motion or action by violence; to drive.		 v. t.
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To give force to; to strengthen; to invigorate; to urge with energy; as, to enforce arguments or requests.		 v. t.
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To put in force; to cause to take effect; to give effect to; to execute with vigor; as, to enforce the laws.		 v. t.
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To urge; to ply hard; to lay much stress upon.		 v. t.
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To attempt by force.		 v. i.
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To prove; to evince.		 v. i.
English » English
Afforce To reenforce; to strengthen. v. t.
Afforcement A fortress; a fortification for defense. n.
Afforcement A reenforcement; a strengthening. n.
Counterforce An opposing force. n.
Deforce Hear the Pronunciation!
To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold.		 v.
Deforce Hear the Pronunciation!
To resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force, as an officer in the execution of his duty.		 v.
Deforced of Deforce imp. & p. p.
Deforcement Hear the Pronunciation!
A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right.		 n.
Deforcement Hear the Pronunciation!
Resistance to an officer in the execution of law.		 n.
Deforceor Same as Deforciant. n.
Efforce To force; to constrain; to compel to yield. v. t.
Efforced of Efforce imp. & p. p.
Enforce Hear the Pronunciation!
To put force upon; to force; to constrain; to compel; as, to enforce obedience to commands.		 v. t.
Enforce Hear the Pronunciation!
To make or gain by force; to obtain by force; as, to enforce a passage.		 v. t.
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To put in motion or action by violence; to drive.		 v. t.
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To give force to; to strengthen; to invigorate; to urge with energy; as, to enforce arguments or requests.		 v. t.
Enforce Hear the Pronunciation!
To put in force; to cause to take effect; to give effect to; to execute with vigor; as, to enforce the laws.		 v. t.
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To urge; to ply hard; to lay much stress upon.		 v. t.
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To attempt by force.		 v. i.
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To prove; to evince.		 v. i.