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force

English

  1. 🔊 physical energy or intensity
    “he hit with all the force he could muster”
  2. 🔊 a powerful effect or influence
    “the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them”
  3. 🔊 a group of people having the power of effective action
    “he joined forces with a band of adventurers”
  4. 🔊 group of people willing to obey orders
    “a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens”
  5. 🔊 (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity
    “force equals mass times acceleration”
  6. 🔊 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”
  7. 🔊 (of a law) having legal validity
    “the law is still in effect”
  8. 🔊 one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority
    “the mysterious presence of an evil power”
  9. 🔊 a putout of a base runner who is required to run
    “the shortstop got the runner at second on a force”
  10. 🔊 a unit that is part of some military service
    “he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men”
  11. 🔊 impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably
    “She forced her diet fads on him”
  12. 🔊 do forcibly
    “Don't force it!”
  13. 🔊 force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
    “She rammed her mind into focus”
  14. 🔊 take by force
    “Storm the fort”
  15. 🔊 urge or force (a person) to an action
  16. 🔊 move with force
    “He pushed the table into a corner”
  17. 🔊 squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
    “I squeezed myself into the corner”
  18. 🔊 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

  1. 🔊 fuerza force
  2. 🔊 ímpetu force
  3. 🔊 ñeque force, power
  4. 🔊 forzar to force, break through
  5. 🔊 obligar to force, to compel, to make (someone do something)

Similar words

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