Definition of force

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Force (n.) 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..

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Turgid :: Turgid (a.) Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit..
Capture :: Capture (n.) The act of seizing by force, or getting possession of by superior power or by stratagem; as, the capture of an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal..
Impatiens :: Impatiens (n.) A genus of plants, several species of which have very beautiful flowers; -- so called because the elastic capsules burst when touched, and scatter the seeds with considerable force. Called also touch-me-not, jewelweed, and snapweed. I. Balsamina (sometimes called lady's slipper) is the common garden balsam..
Cram :: Cram (v. t.) To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people..
Deforcement :: Deforcement (n.) A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right..
Ableness :: Ableness (n.) Ability of body or mind; force; vigor.
Air Gun :: Air gun () A kind of gun in which the elastic force of condensed air is used to discharge the ball. The air is powerfully compressed into a reservoir attached to the gun, by a condensing pump, and is controlled by a valve actuated by the trigger..
Forcible :: Forcible (a.) Possessing force; characterized by force, efficiency, or energy; powerful; efficacious; impressive; influential..
Swell :: Swell (n.) Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force..
Pithy :: Pithy (superl.) Having nervous energy; forceful; cogent.
Forceless :: Forceless (a.) Having little or no force; feeble.
Disjoint :: Disjoint (v. t.) To separate the joints of; to separate, as parts united by joints; to put out of joint; to force out of its socket; to dislocate; as, to disjoint limbs; to disjoint bones; to disjoint a fowl in carving..
Chemism :: Chemism (n.) The force exerted between the atoms of elementary substance whereby they unite to form chemical compounds; chemical attaction; affinity; -- sometimes used as a general expression for chemical activity or relationship.
Foot Poundal :: Foot poundal () A unit of energy or work, equal to the work done in moving a body through one foot against the force of one poundal..
Ukase :: Ukase (n.) In Russia, a published proclamation or imperial order, having the force of law..
Sweep :: Sweep (v. i.) To brush swiftly over the surface of anything; to pass with switness and force, as if brushing the surface of anything; to move in a stately manner; as, the wind sweeps across the plain; a woman sweeps through a drawing-room..
Command :: Command (n.) A body of troops, or any naval or military force or post, or the whole territory under the authority or control of a particular officer..
Raid :: Raid (n.) A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray.
Rob :: Rob (v. t.) To take (something) away from by force; to strip by stealing; to plunder; to pillage; to steal from.
Attenuate :: Attenuate (v. t.) To lessen the amount, force, or value of; to make less complex; to weaken..
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