force
Definition of force:
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part of speech: verb
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part of speech: noun
Strength, power, energy; efficacy; validity; influence; vehemence; violence; coercion or compulsion; military or naval strength ( often in plural); an armament; ( mech.) that which produces or tends to produce a change in a body's state of rest or motion.
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part of speech: noun
Active power; vigour; quantity of power produced by motion; violence; troops; a body of land or naval combatants; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect; power to persuade or convince.
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part of speech: verb
To draw or push by main strength; to compel; to constrain; to compel by strength of evidence; to take by violence; to ravish; ( hort.) to cause to grow or ripen rapidly.
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part of speech: verb
To compel; to obtain by force; to coerce; to draw or push by main strength; to ravish.
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part of speech: adverb
Forcefully.
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Common misspellings:
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- defore (0.6%)
- fource (6.8%)
- forece (1.9%)
- forse (21.0%)
- foce (24.7%)
- froce (21.6%)
- forcev (1.9%)
- forceing (0.6%)
- firce (4.9%)
- enegry (1.2%)
- forcce (1.2%)
- precense (0.6%)
- forc (1.2%)
- focre (3.1%)
- foruce (1.2%)
- forec (1.2%)
- forsce (1.2%)
- fprce (1.2%)
- forceiia (1.2%)
- forice (1.2%)
- ofrce (1.2%)
Usage examples for force:
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What is a force pump?
"Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II" – Joshua Rose -
It's the work of the force first, last, and all the time.
"The Heart of Unaga" – Ridgwell Cullum -
Antinea does not force him to.
"Atlantida" – Pierre Benoit -
Your knife, Captain, to force it open.
"The Golden Rock" – Ernest Glanville
