Crossword clues for forced
forced
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forced \Forced\, a. Done or produced with force or great labor, or by extraordinary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure; as, a forced style; a forced laugh.
Forced draught. See under Draught.
Forced march (Mil.), a march of one or more days made with all possible speed. -- For"ced*ly, adv. -- For"ced*ness, n.
Force \Force\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Forced; p. pr. & vb. n. Forcing.] [OF. forcier, F. forcer, fr. LL. forciare, fortiare. See Force, n.]
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.
To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind.
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To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one's will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon.
To force their monarch and insult the court.
--Dryden.I should have forced thee soon wish other arms.
--Milton.To force a spotless virgin's chastity.
--Shak. To obtain, overcome, or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress; as, to force the castle; to force a lock.
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To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc.
It stuck so fast, so deeply buried lay That scarce the victor forced the steel away.
--Dryden.To force the tyrant from his seat by war.
--Sahk.Ethelbert ordered that none should be forced into religion.
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To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce. [Obs.]
What can the church force more?
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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 conceit or metaphor; to force a laugh; to force fruits.
High on a mounting wave my head I bore, Forcing my strength, and gathering to the shore.
--Dryden. (Whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none.
To provide with forces; to re["e]nforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison. [Obs.]
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To allow the force of; to value; to care for. [Obs.]
For me, I force not argument a straw.
--Shak.Syn: To compel; constrain; oblige; necessitate; coerce; drive; press; impel.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"not spontaneous or voluntary, strained, unnatural," 1570s, past participle adjective from force (v.). Meaning "effected by an unusual application of force" is from 1590s. Related: Forcedly. The flier's forced landing attested by 1917.
Wiktionary
1 Obtained forcefully, not naturally. 2 Opened or accessed using force. v
(en-past of: force)
WordNet
adj. produced by or subjected to forcing; "forced-air heating"; "furnaces of the forced-convection type"; "forced convection in plasma generators"
forced or compelled; "promised to abolish forced labor"
made necessary by an unexpected situation or emergency; "a forced landing" [syn: unexpected]
lacking spontaneity; not natural; "a constrained smile"; "forced heartiness"; "a strained smile" [syn: constrained, strained]
Wikipedia
Forced is a single-player and co-op action role-playing game developed by BetaDwarf, released in October 2013 for Windows, OS X and Linux through the Steam platform as well as Wii U. It is about gladiators fighting for their freedom in a fantasy arena and are assisted by a spirit-like character called Balfus. Gameplay consists of selecting a weapon class and abilities to combat the various enemies of each arena, while solving puzzles using the help of Balfus. BetaDwarf was formed by a small group of students in 2011, who began developing the game in an unused classroom in Aalborg University – Copenhagen, Denmark. They were removed months later and launched a successful Kickstarter campaign involving an Imgur picture which documented their progress. Forced received moderate to favorable reviews with most critics praising its competitive gameplay and puzzle-system. The game's weak plot, technical glitches and excess difficulty were the negative highlights. It won the Level Up 2013 Intel award and BetaDwarf received the Danish Developer Of The Year (2013) for it.
Usage examples of "forced".
Jamie had forced me to take almost all the moneynot a great deal, but there was a small weight of coin at the bottom of each of the pockets tied around my waist, and a couple of proclamation notes tucked inside my stays.
Vrej was posed insouciantly on a new foremast, and explained the delay by informing them that Acapulco was that rarest of places, an important trade-port without a single Armenian, and so he had been forced to deal with slower minds.
As it was, she and Adams had ten days of forced seclusion in which to ponder such concerns, starting almost the moment Adams arrived at Quincy on the evening of March 18, 1801.
By violence you have forced your way to me, Adana, of the Older Race who fed your forefathers with the fruit of our wisdom.
Not deliberately, at any rate, and in this company the likelihood of lice was slight compared to the sort of places in which poverty had forced Adele to eat and sleep for many years.
Even the later school of the Adoptians in Rome, and the later Adoptians in general, were forced to assume a divine hypostasis beside the Godhead, which of course sensibly threatened their Christology.
Fortunately Agata has succeeded in saving her from being forced to marry at twelve as her husband wanted.
But as his health deteriorated, Smith was forced to fight another battle with the State Department for wheelchair access to SA-10, the building in Foggy Bottom where the DSS agents were based.
Grabbing ahold of the back of his hair, she kept his head firmly in place and jammed the breathing regulator into his mouth, He was forced to breathe.
West Point class reunion in 1939, Albright was forced to admit that Adamson had indeed found a faster route to military advancement than he had.
He forced himself to study the maneuvers of the attackers, occasionally commenting to Sallustius on the discipline and arrangement of the Alemanni forces.
All that was left of old Algiers tried to boast, in forced dumbness, of past glories, of every charm the beautiful, fierce city of pirates must have possessed before the French came to push it slowly but with deadly sureness back from the sea.
That was standard procedure on Alii Drive in winter storms: first sirens, then roadblocks and panic, and finally forced evacuation of all beachfront homes by Civil Defense rescue teams.
But then Captain Alima had come with his Star Destroyer and forced Nadon to reveal the secrets of Ithorian technology to the Empire.
She forced herself to stillness as he slit the dress all the way to the hem and pulled the rags away from her.