Definitions for forced

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forced forced

Spelling: [fawrst, fohrst]

IPA: /fɔrst, foʊrst/

Forced is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 110 anagrams from letters in forced (cdefor).

Definitions for forced

noun

1. physical power or strength possessed by a living being:
2. strength or power exerted upon an object; physical coercion; violence:
3. strength; energy; power; intensity:
4. power to influence, affect, or control; efficacious power:
5. Law. unlawful violence threatened or committed against persons or property.
6. persuasive power; power to convince:
7. mental or moral strength:
8. might, as of a ruler or realm; strength for war.
9. Often, forces. the military or fighting strength, especially of a nation.
10. any body of persons combined for joint action:
11. intensity or strength of effect:
12. Physics. an influence on a body or system, producing or tending to produce a change in movement or in shape or other effects. the intensity of such an influence. Symbol: F, f.
13. any influence or agency analogous to physical force:
14. binding power, as of a contract.
15. Baseball. force play.
16. value; significance; meaning.
17. Billiards. a stroke in which the cue ball is forcibly struck directly below the center in such a manner as to cause it to stop abruptly, bound back, or roll off to one side after hitting the object ball.

Idioms

1. in force, in operation; effective: in large numbers; at full strength:

adjective

1. enforced or compulsory:
2. strained, unnatural, or affected:
3. subjected to force.
4. required by circumstances; emergency:

verb (used with object)

1. to compel, constrain, or oblige (oneself or someone) to do something:
2. to drive or propel against resistance:
3. to bring about or effect by force.
4. to bring about of necessity or as a necessary result:
5. to put or impose (something or someone) forcibly on or upon a person:
6. to compel by force; overcome the resistance of:
7. to obtain or draw forth by or as if by force; extort:
8. to enter or take by force; overpower:
9. to break open (a door, lock, etc.).
10. to cause (plants, fruits, etc.) to grow or mature at an increased rate by artificial means.
11. to press, urge, or exert (an animal, person, etc.) to violent effort or to the utmost.
12. to use force upon.
13. to rape.
14. Baseball. to cause (a base runner) to be put out by obliging the runner, as by a ground ball, to vacate a base and attempt to move to the next base in order to make room for another runner or the batter. to cause (a base runner or run) to score, as by walking a batter with the bases full (often followed by in).
15. Cards. to compel (a player) to trump by leading a suit of which the player has no cards. to compel a player to play (a particular card). to compel (a player) to play so as to make known the strength of the hand.
16. Photography. to develop (a print or negative) for longer than usual in order to increase density or bring out details. to bring out underexposed parts of (a print or negative) by adding alkali to the developer.
17. Archaic. to give force to; strengthen; reinforce.

verb (used without object)

1. to make one's way by force.

Origin of forced

First recorded in 1540-50; force + -ed²

Examples for forced

He was forced to admit that the girl still had power to trouble him.

And the more she is forced to recount, the more her grasp of reality slips, or heightens, depending on your point of view.

One is forced to ask, what on earth was Andrew doing hanging out with scantily clad teenagers?

Better to be a beggar in freedom,” he cried out, “than to be forced into compromises against my conscience.

They had forced the foreign immigrants to work in their factories.

However, intellectual honesty is the first thing to go when you are forced to constantly pander to your base.

He forced himself to face them regularly as a penance and a corrective.

A spokesman for Lewisham council said last year that it would be forced to act if the family returned to Britain.

The consonants were reproduced but the reader was forced to guess at the vowels.

He had entered into the path of dishonesty, and he was forced to keep on in it.