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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
forcibly
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
evict
▪ Groups of two or three male lions try to take over harems of females by forcibly evicting the existing male owners.
▪ A cantankerous sojourn in Aberdeen ended when he was forcibly evicted from his lodgings.
remove
▪ They were forcibly removed by the National Guard a week later.
▪ The university authorities did not wish to provoke the students by forcibly removing the posters.
▪ I forcibly removed the finger, almost having to break it in the process.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The police threatened to forcibly remove the protesters.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At once both prisoners were made forcibly to kneel and lower their heads.
▪ Instead, it has rightly be forcibly restored to being a surprise element.
▪ Members of a breakaway group who blocked traffic in University Square the same evening were forcibly dispersed by police.
▪ Smith showed that water was forcibly ejected from the mouth when the gill covers were squeezed suddenly.
▪ The second way of life is based upon the will of a minority forcibly imposed upon the majority.
▪ The university authorities did not wish to provoke the students by forcibly removing the posters.
▪ This patient was bound to be extremely distressed at finding that a male doctor had forcibly touched her intimately.
▪ Voices buzzed, then rose in laughter or to make a point more forcibly.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forcibly

Forcibly \For"ci*bly\, adv. In a forcible manner.

Wiktionary
forcibly

adv. In a forcible manner.

WordNet
forcibly

adv. in a forcible manner; "keep in mind the dangers of imposing our own values and prejudices too forcibly"

Usage examples of "forcibly".

He forcibly turned his attention to the brilliantly illuminated wall of lights, cut crystal, stained aerogel, mirrors, and high-tech circuitry which constituted the bar.

To say nothing of old Aunt Agata, who had taken her by the hand, ripped off her wedding ring and stuffed it forcibly between her teeth.

It took all strength to forcibly extend her elbow, to expose the antecubital vein.

Alessandra wanted to know if the residents had renounced their antihuman stance now the wormhole detector station had been forcibly installed in the Regent mountains above the town.

Tallant allowed it, adding reflectively that Arabella put him forcibly in mind of what her Mama was at the same age.

He wondered what became of Archimedean Enterprises if Kathy was declared unable to manage her affairs, if she was forcibly committed.

So it would have been strange if those twenty blacks, forcibly transported to Jamestown, and sold as objects to settlers anxious for a steadfast source of labor, were considered as anything but slaves.

His letter was as follows: I have received your letter, my dear Minister: it forcibly conveys the expression of your right feeling, which revolts against oppression, severity, and the abase of power.

As he smoothed the creases in the stiff paper, something struck him forcibly: Cytherea knew!

For the moment the irony of her situation struck Domini so forcibly that she could say nothing.

Lubin gave thanks for cells forcibly overcrowded with mitochondria, for trimeric antibodies, for macrophage and lymphokine and fibroblast production cranked up to twice the mammalian norm.

Back in the Indian villages, an ever-increasing majority became convinced that firewater and gluttonous paleface civilization were synonymous, that they must rise and retake their land forcibly, killing in the process as many drunken renegades as they came across.

After a quick brush to remove at least some of the dog hairs from the garment, Ian was forcibly inserted into it, and sat firmly down to have his hair combed and plaited while Jamie gave him a quick refresher course in manners, this consisting solely of the advice to keep his mouth shut as much as possible.

Of this Jones might be said to have taken a very large dose, and it operated very forcibly upon him.

I was forcibly dismounted from the kas by the easy method of cutting my bonds and allowing me to fall to a very hard pavement.