force
force is a 5-letter English word with 40 senses as transitive verb, noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To stuff; to lard; to farce. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To stuff; to lard; to farce.
- noun. A waterfall; a cascade.
- noun. Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor; might; often, an unusual degree of strength or energy; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect; especially, power to persuade, or convince, or impose obligation; pertinency; validity; special signification; as, the force of an appeal, an argument, a contract, or a term.
- noun. Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
- noun. Strength or power for war; hence, a body of land or naval combatants, with their appurtenances, ready for action; -- an armament; troops; warlike array; -- often in the plural; hence, a body of men prepared for action in other ways; as, the laboring force of a plantation.
- noun. Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things; violence.
- noun. Validity; efficacy.
- noun. Any action between two bodies which changes, or tends to change, their relative condition as to rest or motion; or, more generally, which changes, or tends to change, any physical relation between them, whether mechanical, thermal, chemical, electrical, magnetic, or of any other kind; as, the force of gravity; cohesive force; centrifugal force.
- noun. To constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible; to compel by physical, moral, or intellectual means; to coerce; as, masters force slaves to labor.
- noun. To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind.
- noun. To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one;s will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon.
- noun. To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
- noun. To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc.
- noun. To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
- noun. To exert to the utmost; to urge; hence, to strain; to urge to excessive, unnatural, or untimely action; to produce by unnatural effort; as, to force a consient or metaphor; to force a laugh; to force fruits.
- noun. To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none.
- noun. To provide with forces; to reenforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
- noun. To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
- intransitive verb. To use violence; to make violent effort; to strive; to endeavor.
- intransitive verb. To make a difficult matter of anything; to labor; to hesitate; hence, to force of, to make much account of; to regard.
- intransitive verb. To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter.
- noun. 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"
- noun. 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"
- noun. (of a law) having legal validity
"the law is still in effect"
- noun. physical energy or intensity
"he hit with all the force he could muster"
"it was destroyed by the strength of the gale"
- noun. a powerful effect or influence
"the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them"
- noun. a unit that is part of some military service
"he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men"
- noun. a group of people having the power of effective action
"he joined forces with a band of adventurers"
- noun. group of people willing to obey orders
"a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens"
- noun. one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority
"the mysterious presence of an evil power"
"may the force be with you"
- noun. (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity
"force equals mass times acceleration"
- verb. impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably
"She forced her diet fads on him"
- verb. do forcibly; exert force
"Don't force it!"
- verb. cause to move by pulling
"draw a wagon"
"pull a sled"
- verb. force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
"She rammed her mind into focus"
"He drives me mad"
- verb. squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
"I squeezed myself into the corner"
- verb. take by force
"Storm the fort"
- verb. urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate
- verb. move with force, "He pushed the table into a corner"
- 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"
"He squeezed her for information"
Synonyms
violence, effect, forcefulness, strength, personnel, power, thrust, draw, pull, drive, ram, squeeze, wedge, storm, impel, push, coerce, hale, pressure
Common word forms
forced, forcer, forces, forcing, forceful, forceable, forceless, forcement
Words from these letters
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