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Forced

adjective

Produced by or subjected to forcing. "Furnaces of the forced-convection type" , "Forced convection in plasma generators"

Forced or compelled.

Made necessary by an unexpected situation or emergency.

Lacking spontaneity; not natural. Synonyms: constrained, strained. "Forced heartiness" , "A strained smile"

Force

verb

(past & past part. forced; pres. part. forcing)

To cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :. Synonyms: coerce, hale, pressure, squeeze. "He squeezed her for information"

Urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate. Synonym: impel.

Move with force,. Synonym: push.

Impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably. Synonym: thrust.

Squeeze like a wedge into a tight space. Synonyms: squeeze, wedge.

Force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically. Synonyms: drive, ram. "He drives me mad"

Cause to move by pulling. Synonyms: draw, pull. "Pull a sled"

Do forcibly; exert force.

Take by force. Synonym: storm.

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"Forced" Quotes from Famous Books

... seeing him he continued his way until his feet grew so heavy that he was forced to sit down beside the road. Then he imagined that the Saviour Himself came towards him, gazed lovingly into his face, and turned to beckon some one, Benedictus did not know whom, heavenward. Suddenly the clouds that had covered ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... Bishop Lightfoot describes as 'the confused, restless, half-distracted state which is produced by physical derangement or mental distress.' A storm of agitation and bewilderment broke His calm, and forced from His patient lips, little wont to speak of His own emotions, or to seek for sympathy, the unutterably pathetic cry, 'My soul is exceeding sorrowful'—compassed about with sorrow, as the word means—'even unto death.' No feeble explanation of these words does justice ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII • Alexander Maclaren

... were now lying at the exact distance of 440 yards from the stockade that protected the thing they had come to steal—if you can call "stealing" the forced sale the Master now planned consummating, by having his bankers put into unwilling hands every ultimate penny of the more than $3,500,000 involved, once the coup should be put through—realizing this fact, Bohannan felt the tug of ...

— The Flying Legion • George Allan England

... beautiful Woman, I ought to have before me those that are the most so; with this Condition, that your Lordship might assist me in choosing out the greatest Beauty. But as I am under a double Want, both of good Judgment and fine Women, I am forced to go by a certain Idea which I form in my own Mind. Whether this hath any Excellence of Art in it, I cannot determine; but ...

— The Mind of the Artist - Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art • Various

... they could, I assure you that we should hall be perfectly willing and contented to go on workin' our bloody guts out for the benefit of our masters for the rest of our lives. We're quite willin' to work: that's hall we arst for—Plenty of Work—but as we can't get it we're forced to come out 'ere and arst you to spare a few coppers towards a crust of bread and a ...

— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell

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