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force
English
- 🔊 physical energy or intensity“he hit with all the force he could muster”
- 🔊 a powerful effect or influence“the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them”
- 🔊 a group of people having the power of effective action“he joined forces with a band of adventurers”
- 🔊 group of people willing to obey orders“a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens”
- 🔊 (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity“force equals mass times acceleration”
- 🔊 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”
- 🔊 (of a law) having legal validity“the law is still in effect”
- 🔊 one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority“the mysterious presence of an evil power”
- 🔊 a putout of a base runner who is required to run“the shortstop got the runner at second on a force”
- 🔊 a unit that is part of some military service“he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men”
- 🔊 impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably“She forced her diet fads on him”
- 🔊 do forcibly“Don't force it!”
- 🔊 force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically“She rammed her mind into focus”
- 🔊 take by force“Storm the fort”
- 🔊 urge or force (a person) to an action
- 🔊 move with force“He pushed the table into a corner”
- 🔊 squeeze like a wedge into a tight space“I squeezed myself into the corner”
- 🔊 to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means“She forced him to take a job in the city”
Spanish
- 🔊 fuerza force
- 🔊 ímpetu force
- 🔊 ñeque force, power
- 🔊 forzar to force, break through
- 🔊 obligar to force, to compel, to make (someone do something)