Definition of force

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Definition of force

  • (of a law) having legal validity (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. effect
  • group of people willing to obey orders (noun)

    Examples

    1. a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens

    Synonyms

    1. personnel
  • physical energy or intensity (noun)

    Examples

    1. he hit with all the force he could muster
    2. a government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man

    Synonyms

    1. forcefulness
    2. strength
  • 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 (noun)

    Examples

    1. the shortstop got the runner at second on a force

    Synonyms

    1. force-out
    2. force out
    3. force play
  • to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means (verb)

    Examples

    1. She forced him to take a job in the city

    Synonyms

    1. coerce
    2. hale
    3. pressure
    4. squeeze
  • force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically (verb)

    Synonyms

    1. drive
    2. ram
  • urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate (verb)

    Synonyms

    1. impel
  • move with force (verb)

    Synonyms

    1. push
  • impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably (verb)

    Examples

    1. She forced her diet fads on him

    Synonyms

    1. thrust
  • squeeze like a wedge into a tight space (verb)

    Synonyms

    1. squeeze
    2. wedge
  • a unit that is part of some military service (noun)

    Examples

    1. he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men

    Synonyms

    1. military force
    2. military group
    3. military unit
  • one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority (noun)

    Examples

    1. may the force be with you
    2. the forces of evil

    Synonyms

    1. power
  • an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists) (noun)

    Examples

    1. he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one

    Synonyms

    1. violence
  • take by force (verb)

    Synonyms

    1. storm
  • a group of people having the power of effective action (noun)

    Examples

    1. he joined forces with a band of adventurers
  • a powerful effect or influence (noun)

    Examples

    1. the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them
  • do forcibly; exert force (verb)

    Examples

    1. Don't force it!
  • (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity (noun)

    Examples

    1. force equals mass times acceleration

See definition of force in Merriam Webster