Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Imposed by force; involuntary.
- adjective Produced under strain; not spontaneous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Effected by an unusual application of force or effort.
- Overstrained; unnatural; affected; artificial.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Done or produced with force or great labor, or by extraordinary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure
- adjective See under
Draught . - adjective (Mil.) a march of one or more days made with all possible speed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
force . - adjective obtained
forcefully , not naturally - adjective opened or accessed using
force
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective produced by or subjected to forcing
- adjective made necessary by an unexpected situation or emergency
- adjective forced or compelled
- adjective lacking spontaneity; not natural
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Examples
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Just as well as the seal in traps may be forced back by the increased pressure of the air within the pipes, the same seal may be _forced out_, pulled out, aspirated, or siphoned out by a sudden withdrawal of a large quantity of air from the pipes with which the trap is connected.
The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) Kenelm Winslow
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They may be (1) _living_ or _dead_; (2) _forced_ or _avoidable_; (3) _momentous_ or _trivial_; and for our purposes we may call an option a _genuine_ option when it is of the forced, living, and momentous kind.
The Making of Arguments J. H. Gardiner
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I shall never forget the joy it gave me, -- the gratitude it caused me, -- the good it did me, at the very moment when I was forced, _ay forced_ to reject that offer.
Fairy Fingers A Novel Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie 1844
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When you use the term forced busing, what do you refer to specifically?
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This, perhaps, would be the right way of beginning a story (not that it is a story exactly), with the title forced on me by the name and nature of the hero.
Angling Sketches Andrew Lang 1878
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I don't think any of the babes did like it at the time, not even Heidi (who usually loves Xenomania) but the label forced the release of it.
unknown title 2009
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I don't think any of the babes did like it at the time, not even Heidi (who usually loves Xenomania) but the label forced the release of it.
unknown title 2009
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I don't think any of the babes did like it at the time, not even Heidi (who usually loves Xenomania) but the label forced the release of it.
unknown title 2009
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When they flee, in what we call forced migration, they're going into the region to live amongst the poor.
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But that's what happened when the Texas Education Agency put its science curriculum director Chris Comer on administrative leave in late October, leading to what she calls a forced resignation.
oroboros commented on the word forced
FORCED: A large group of trees, as “Lemme showya mah pine forced.”
July 2, 2012