FORCED
constrained, forced, strained
(adjective) lacking spontaneity; not natural; “a constrained smile”; “forced heartiness”; “a strained smile”
forced
(adjective) made necessary by an unexpected situation or emergency; “a forced landing”
forced
(adjective) forced or compelled; “promised to abolish forced labor”
forced
(adjective) produced by or subjected to forcing; “forced-air heating”; “furnaces of the forced-convection type”; “forced convection in plasma generators”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
forced
simple past tense and past participle of force
Adjective
forced (comparative more forced, superlative most forced)
Obtained forcefully, not naturally.
Opened or accessed using force.
Synonyms
• forcible
Source: Wiktionary
Forced, a.
Definition: Done or produced with force or great labor, or by extraordinary
exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or
pressure; as, a forced style; a forced laugh. Forced draught. See
under Draught.
– Forced march (Mil.), a march of one or more days made with all
possible speed.
– For"ced*ly, adv.
– For"ced*ness, n.
FORCE
Force, v. t. Etym: [See Farce to stuff.]
Definition: To stuff; to lard; to farce. [R.]
Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
Force, n. Etym: [Of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. fors, foss, Dan. fos.]
Definition: A waterfall; a cascade. [Prov. Eng.]
To see the falls for force of the river Kent. T. Gray.
Force, n. Etym: [F. force, LL. forcia, fortia, fr. L. fortis strong.
See Fort, n.]
1. 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.
He was, in the full force of the words, a good man. Macaulay.
2. Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence;
coercion.
Which now they hold by force, and not by right. Shak.
3. Strength or power 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.
Is Lucius general of the forces Shak.
4. (Law)
(a) Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon
persons or things; violence.
(b) Validity; efficacy. Burrill.
5. (Physics)
Definition: 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. Animal force (Physiol.), muscular force or
energy.
– Catabiotic force Etym: [Gr. (Biol.), the influence exerted by
living structures on adjoining cells, by which the latter are
developed in harmony with the primary structures.
– Centrifugal force, Centripetal force, Coercive force, etc. See
under Centrifugal, Centripetal, etc.
– Composition of forces, Correlation of forces, etc. See under
Composition, Correlation, etc.
– Force and arms Etym: [trans. of L. vi et armis] (Law), an
expression in old indictments, signifying violence.
– In force, or Of force, of unimpaired efficacy; valid; of full
virtue; not suspended or reversed. "A testament is of force after men
are dead." Heb. ix. 17.
– Metabolic force (Physiol.), the influence which causes and
controls the metabolism of the body.
– No force, no matter of urgency or consequence; no account; hence,
to do no force, to make no account of; not to heed. [Obs.] Chaucer.
– Of force, of necessity; unavoidably; imperatively. "Good reasons
must, of force, give place to better." Shak.
– Plastic force (Physiol.), the force which presumably acts in the
growth and repair of the tissues.
– Vital force (Physiol.), that force or power which is inherent in
organization; that form of energy which is the cause of the vital
phenomena of the body, as distinguished from the physical forces
generally known.
Syn.
– Strength; vigor; might; energy; stress; vehemence; violence;
compulsion; coaction; constraint; coercion.
– Force, Strength. Strength looks rather to power as an inward
capability or energy. Thus we speak of the strength of timber, bodily
strength, mental strength, strength of emotion, etc. Force, on the
other hand, looks more to the outward; as, the force of gravitation,
force of circumstances, force of habit, etc. We do, indeed, speak of
strength of will and force of will; but even here the former may lean
toward the internal tenacity of purpose, and the latter toward the
outward expression of it in action. But, though the two words do in a
few cases touch thus closely on each other, there is, on the whole, a
marked distinction in our use of force and strength. "Force is the
name given, in mechanical science, to whatever produces, or can
produce, motion." Nichol.
Thy tears are of no force to mollify This flinty man. Heywood.
More huge in strength than wise in works he was. Spenser.
Adam and first matron Eve Had ended now their orisons, and found
Strength added from above, new hope to spring Out of despair. Milton.
Force, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Forced; p. pr. & vb. n. Forcing.] Etym:
[OF. forcier, F. forcer, fr. LL. forciare, fortiare. See Force, n.]
1. 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.
2. To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on
the mind.
3. To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one;s
will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon.
To force their monarch and insult the court. Dryden.
I should have forced thee soon wish other arms. Milton.
To force a spotless virgin's chastity. Shak.
4. To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle;
specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
5. To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or
violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into,
through, out, etc.
It stuck so fast, so deeply buried lay That scarce the victor forced
the steel away. Dryden.
To force the tyrant from his seat by war. Sahk.
Ethelbert ordered that none should be forced into religion. Fuller.
6. To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to
enforce. [Obs.]
What can the church force more J. Webster.
7. 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.
High on a mounting wave my head I bore, Forcing my strength, and
gathering to the shore. Dryden.
8. (Whist)
Definition: To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading
a suit of which he has none.
9. To provide with forces; to reënforce; to strengthen by soldiers;
to man; to garrison. [Obs.] Shak.
10. To allow the force of; to value; to care for. [Obs.]
For me, I force not argument a straw. Shak.
Syn.
– To compel; constrain; oblige; necessitate; coerce; drive; press;
impel.
Force, v. i. [Obs. in all the senses.]
1. To use violence; to make violent effort; to strive; to endeavor.
Forcing with gifts to win his wanton heart. Spenser.
2. To make a difficult matter of anything; to labor; to hesitate;
hence, to force of, to make much account of; to regard.
Your oath once broke, you force not to forswear. Shak.
I force not of such fooleries. Camden.
3. To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter.
It is not sufficient to have attained the name and dignity of a
shepherd, not forcing how. Udall.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition