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Forced   /fɔrst/   Listen
verb
Force  v. t.  To stuff; to lard; to farce. (R.) "Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit."


Force  v. t.  (past & past part. forced; pres. part. forcing)  
1.
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.
2.
To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind.
3.
To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one's will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon. "To force their monarch and insult the court." "I should have forced thee soon wish other arms." "To force a spotless virgin's chastity."
4.
To obtain, overcome, or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress; as, to force the castle; to force a lock.
5.
To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc. "It stuck so fast, so deeply buried lay That scarce the victor forced the steel away." "To force the tyrant from his seat by war." "Ethelbert ordered that none should be forced into religion."
6.
To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce. (Obs.) "What can the church force more?"
7.
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 conceit or metaphor; to force a laugh; to force fruits. "High on a mounting wave my head I bore, Forcing my strength, and gathering to the shore."
8.
(Whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none.
9.
To provide with forces; to reenforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison. (Obs.)
10.
To allow the force of; to value; to care for. (Obs.) "For me, I force not argument a straw."
Synonyms: To compel; constrain; oblige; necessitate; coerce; drive; press; impel.


Force  v. i.  (Obs. in all the senses.)
1.
To use violence; to make violent effort; to strive; to endeavor. "Forcing with gifts to win his wanton heart."
2.
To make a difficult matter of anything; to labor; to hesitate; hence, to force of, to make much account of; to regard. "Your oath once broke, you force not to forswear." "I force not of such fooleries."
3.
To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter. "It is not sufficient to have attained the name and dignity of a shepherd, not forcing how."


adjective
Forced  adj.  Done or produced with force or great labor, or by extraordinary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure; as, a forced style; a forced laugh.
Forced draught. See under Draught.
Forced march (Mil.), a march of one or more days made with all possible speed.





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... 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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