force¹ /fōrs or förs/

1. Strength, power or energy
2. Efficacy
3. Validity
4. Influence
5. Vehemence
6. Violence
7. Coercion
8. A group of people assembled for collective action (eg police force)
9. (in pl; sometimes with cap) a navy, army or air force
10. An armament
11. Any cause which changes the direction or speed of the motion of a portion of matter (physics)

1. To draw or push by strength
2. To thrust
3. To compel
4. To constrain
5. To overcome the resistance of by force
6. To achieve or bring about by force
7. To break or break open by force
8. To ravish
9. To take by violence
10. To cause to grow or ripen rapidly (horticulture)
11. To strain or work up to a high pitch
12. To induce or cause (someone) to play in a particular way (cards)
13. To cause the playing of (cards)
14. To strengthen (Shakespeare)
15. To attribute importance to (obsolete)

1. To strive (obsolete)
2. To make way by force
3. To care (obsolete)

forced adjective

1. Accomplished by great effort, eg a forced march
2. Strained, excessive or unnatural
3. Artificially produced

forcˈedly adverb

forcˈedness noun

1. The state of being forced
2. Constraint
3. Unnatural or undue distortion

forceˈful adjective

1. Full of force or strength
2. Energetic
3. Driven or acting with power

forceˈfully adverb

forceˈfulness noun

forceˈless adjective

Weak

forcˈer noun

A person or thing that forces, esp the piston of a force pump

forcˈible adjective

1. Having force
2. Done by force

forcˈibleness or forcibilˈity noun

forcˈibly adverb

force de frappe /fors də frap/ noun (French)

A strike force, esp a nuclear one

forced labour noun

Compulsory hard labour, as a punishment for a crime

forced landing noun (aeronautics)

A landing at a place where no landing was originally planned, necessary because of some mishap or emergency

forceˈ-feed transitive verb (pap and pat forceˈ-fed)

1. To feed (a person or animal) forcibly, usu by the mouth
2. To impose (an opinion or belief) on (a person) (figurative)

forceˈ-feeding noun

force field noun

1. That part of any space where a measurable force can exert an effect (physics)
2. An imaginary invisible protective barrier of energy

forceˈ-land intransitive verb

To make a forced landing

force majeure /fors mä-zhœr/ noun (French)

1. Superior power
2. An uncontrollable course of events, excusing one from fulfilling a contract (law)

force pump or forcˈing-pump noun

1. A pump that delivers liquid under pressure greater than its suction pressure
2. A pump for cleaning out pipes by blowing air through

• firethorn
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• fire trail
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• firetrap
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• fire truck
• fire trucks
• fire-tube
• fire-tubes
• fire up
• fire-walk
• fire-walker
• fire-walkers
• fire-walking
• fire-walks
• firewall
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• fire-warden
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• fire-watcher
• fire-watchers
• fire-watching
• firewater
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