Crossword-Solution: FORCE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Force | v. t. | To stuff; to lard; to farce. |
| Force | n. | A waterfall; a cascade. |
| Force | n. | 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. |
| Force | n. | Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion. |
| Force | n. | 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. |
| Force | n. | Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things; violence. |
| Force | n. | Validity; efficacy. |
| Force | n. | 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. |
| Force | n. | 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. |
| Force | n. | To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind. |
| Force | n. | To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one;s will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon. |
| Force | n. | To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress. |
| Force | n. | To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc. |
| Force | n. | To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce. |
| 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. |
| Force | n. | To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none. |
| Force | n. | To provide with forces; to reenforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison. |
| Force | n. | To allow the force of; to value; to care for. |
| Force | v. i. | To use violence; to make violent effort; to strive; to endeavor. |
| Force | v. i. | To make a difficult matter of anything; to labor; to hesitate; hence, to force of, to make much account of; to regard. |
| Force | v. i. | To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| FORCE | anagram | COFRE |
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Sentences with FORCE (5)
The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
The sound came steadily nearer; and in advance of it came this ghastly thought, “The crocodile is about to board the ship!” Even the iron claw hung inactive; as if knowing that it was no intrinsic part of what the attacking force wanted.
Hardly from his buried wigwam Could the hunter force a passage; With his mittens and his snow-shoes Vainly walked he through the forest, Sought for bird or beast and found none, Saw no track of deer or rabbit, In the snow beheld no footprints, In the ghastly, gleaming forest Fell, and could not rise from weakness, Perished there from cold and hunger.
Henceforth his might we know, and know our own So as not either to provoke, or dread New warr, provok’t; our better part remains To work in close design, by fraud or guile What force effected not: that he no less At length from us may find, who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe.
The Fox and the Hedgehog A FOX swimming across a rapid river was carried by the force of the current into a very deep ravine, where he lay for a long time very much bruised, sick, and unable to move.
Quotes with FORCE (3)
Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.
What do you think they're going to do to us when they find us guilty?" she says after a few minutes of silence have passed." Honestly?""Does now seem like the time for honesty?" I look at her from the corner of my eye. "I think they're going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
It doesn’t cause me to doubt God’s existence, but it does force me to admit there’s a lot about God I don’t understand.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 149 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).