force

Noun

• a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base
  • the shortstop got the runner at second on a force
    

• (of a law) having legal validity
  • the law is still in effect
    

• a group of people having the power of effective action
  • he joined forces with a band of adventurers
    

• one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority
  • the mysterious presence of an evil power
    
  • may the force be with you
    
  • the forces of evil
    

• an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)
  • he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one
    

• a unit that is part of some military service
  • he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men
    

• group of people willing to obey orders
  • a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens
    

• physical energy or intensity
  • he hit with all the force he could muster
    
  • it was destroyed by the strength of the gale
    
  • a government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man
    

• (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity
  • force equals mass times acceleration
    

• a powerful effect or influence
  • the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them
    

Verb

• take by force
  • Storm the fort
    

• do forcibly; exert force
  • Don't force it!
    

• cause to move by pulling
  • draw a wagon
    
  • pull a sled
    

• force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
  • She rammed her mind into focus
    
  • He drives me mad
    

• squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
  • I squeezed myself into the corner
    

• impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably
  • She forced her diet fads on him
    

• move with force, "He pushed the table into a corner"

• urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate

• to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"
  • He squeezed her for information
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  force out , force-out , force play , effect , power , violence , military unit , military force , military group , personnel , forcefulness , strength , storm , pull , draw , drive , ram , wedge , squeeze , thrust , push , impel , coerce , hale , pressure
• Antonyms: 
  push , pull , draw