| Results |
| Force |
To stuff; to lard; to farce. |
v. t. |
| Force |
A waterfall; a cascade. |
n. |
| Force |
Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor; might; often, an unusual degree of strength or energy; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect; especially, power to persuade, or convince, or impose obligation; pertinency; validity; special signification; as, the force of an appeal, an argument, a contract, or a term. |
n. |
| Force |
Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion. |
n. |
| Force |
Strength or power for war; hence, a body of land or naval combatants, with their appurtenances, ready for action; -- an armament; troops; warlike array; -- often in the plural; hence, a body of men prepared for action in other ways; as, the laboring force of a plantation. |
n. |
| Force |
Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things; violence. |
n. |
| Force |
Validity; efficacy. |
n. |
| Force |
Any action between two bodies which changes, or tends to change, their relative condition as to rest or motion; or, more generally, which changes, or tends to change, any physical relation between them, whether mechanical, thermal, chemical, electrical, magnetic, or of any other kind; as, the force of gravity; cohesive force; centrifugal force. |
n. |
| Force |
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. |
n. |
| Force |
To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind. |
n. |
| Force |
To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one;s will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon. |
n. |
| Force |
To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress. |
n. |
| Force |
To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc. |
n. |
| Force |
To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce. |
n. |
| Force |
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 consient or metaphor; to force a laugh; to force fruits. |
n. |
| Force |
To compel [an adversary or partner] to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none. |
n. |
| Force |
To provide with forces; to reenforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison. |
n. |
| Force |
To allow the force of; to value; to care for. |
n. |
| Force |
To use violence; to make violent effort; to strive; to endeavor. |
v. i. |
| Force |
To make a difficult matter of anything; to labor; to hesitate; hence, to force of, to make much account of; to regard. |
v. i. |
| Force |
To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter. |
v. i. |
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| Afforce |
To reenforce; to strengthen. |
v. t. |
| Afforcement |
A fortress; a fortification for defense. |
n. |
| Afforcement |
A reenforcement; a strengthening. |
n. |
| Overforce |
Excessive force; violence. |
n. |
| Perforce |
By force; of necessary; at any rate. |
adv. |
| Perforce |
To force; to compel. |
v. t. |
| Ranforce |
See Re/nforce. |
n. |
| Reenforce |
To strengthen with new force, assistance, material, or support; as, to reenforce an argument; to reenforce a garment; especially, to strengthen with additional troops, as an army or a fort, or with additional ships, as a fleet. |
v. t. |
| Reenforce |
Something which reenforces or strengthens. |
v. |
| Reenforce |
That part of a cannon near the breech which is thicker than the rest of the piece, so as better to resist the force of the exploding powder. See Illust. of Cannon.Reenforce |
v. |
| Reenforcement |
The act of reenforcing, or the state of being reenforced. |
n. |
| Reenforcement |
That which reenforces; additional force; especially, additional troops or force to augment the strength of any army, or ships to strengthen a navy or fleet. |
n. |
| Reinforce |
See Reenforce, v. t. |
v. t. |
| Reinforce |
See Reenforce, n. |
n. |
| Reinforcement |
See Reenforcement. |
n. |
| Counterforce |
An opposing force. |
n. |
| Deforced |
of Deforce |
imp. & p. p. |
| Deforce |
To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold. |
v. |
| Deforce |
To resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force, as an officer in the execution of his duty. |
v. |
| Deforcement |
A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right. |
n. |
| Deforcement |
Resistance to an officer in the execution of law. |
n. |
| Deforceor |
Same as Deforciant. |
n. |
| Efforced |
of Efforce |
imp. & p. p. |
| Efforce |
To force; to constrain; to compel to yield. |
v. t. |
| Enforced |
of Enforce |
imp. & p. p. |
| Enforce |
To put force upon; to force; to constrain; to compel; as, to enforce obedience to commands. |
v. t. |
| Enforce |
To make or gain by force; to obtain by force; as, to enforce a passage. |
v. t. |
| Enforce |
To put in motion or action by violence; to drive. |
v. t. |
| Enforce |
To give force to; to strengthen; to invigorate; to urge with energy; as, to enforce arguments or requests. |
v. t. |
| Enforce |
To put in force; to cause to take effect; to give effect to; to execute with vigor; as, to enforce the laws. |
v. t. |
| Enforce |
To urge; to ply hard; to lay much stress upon. |
v. t. |
