Force

noun
foʊrs

Noun

  • physical energy or intensity

    he hit with all the force he could muster

    a government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man

    Similar:ForcefulnessStrength
    Type of:IntensityIntensiveness
  • one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority

    may the force be with you

    the forces of evil

    Similar:Power
    Type of:Cause
  • group of people willing to obey orders

    a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens

    Similar:Personnel
    Type of:OrganizationOrganisation
  • a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base

    the shortstop got the runner at second on a force

    Similar:Force-out
    Type of:Putout
  • a unit that is part of some military service

    he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men

    Type of:Unit
  • an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)

    he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one

    Similar:Violence
    Type of:HostilityAggression
  • a group of people having the power of effective action

    he joined forces with a band of adventurers

  • a powerful effect or influence

    the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them

    Type of:Influence
  • (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity

    force equals mass times acceleration

  • (of a law) having legal validity

    Similar:Effect
    Type of:ValidityValidness

Verb

  • to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means

    She forced him to take a job in the city

    Type of:CompelObligateOblige
  • impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably

    She forced her diet fads on him

    Similar:Thrust
    Type of:ObligeObligateCompel
  • do forcibly; exert force

    Don't force it!

    Type of:MoveAct
  • move with force

    Similar:Push
    Type of:DisplaceMove
  • force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically

    Similar:DriveRam
    Type of:Thrust
  • urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate

    Similar:Impel
    Type of:DoMakeCause
  • squeeze like a wedge into a tight space

    Similar:SqueezeWedge
    Type of:DisplaceMove
  • take by force

    Similar:Storm
    Type of:PenetratePerforate

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