verb
- (v.) ()
- Urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate.
- (v.) ()
- Impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably.
- usage: "She forced her diet fads on him"
- Squeeze like a wedge into a tight space.
- usage: "I squeezed myself into the corner"
- Force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically.
- usage: "She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives me mad"
- Cause to move by pulling.
- usage: "draw a wagon"; "pull a sled"
- Do forcibly; exert force.
- usage: "Don't force it"
- synonyms: force
- Take by force.
- usage: "Storm the fort"
adjective
- Produced by or subjected to forcing.
- usage: "forced-air heating"; "furnaces of the forced-convection type"; "forced convection in plasma generators"
- Forced or compelled.
- usage: "promised to abolish forced labor"
- Made necessary by an unexpected situation or emergency.
- usage: "a forced landing"
- Lacking spontaneity; not natural.
- usage: "a constrained smile"; "forced heartiness"; "a strained smile"
- synonyms: constrained, strained
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