force

Significat (English)

Noun

A waterfall or cascade.

Verb

1. To violate (a woman); to rape.
2. (obsolete) To exert oneself, to do one's utmost.
3. To make someone or something do something, often regardless of their will.
4. To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.
5. To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).
6. To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.
7. To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).
8. To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
9. To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return to while in possession of a ball which has already touched the ground.
10. To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.
11. To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
12. To provide with forces; to reinforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
13. (obsolete) To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
14. To grow (rhubarb) in the dark, causing it to grow early.

Verb

To stuff; to lard; to farce.

Synonyms

compel

power

strength

violence

coerce

might

energy

constrain

oblige

compulsion

vigour

pressure

drive

press

push

vigor

impose

make

thrust

impel

squeeze

urge

coercion

intensity

enforce

influence

strain

unit

squad

intimidate

potency

effect

team

detachment

ravish

ram

🐏

shift

ability

impetus

momentum

shove

constraint

bully

hale

group

pull

bunch

violate

band

rape

draw

oppression

extort

outrage

wedge

propel

army

stamina

command

insist

capacity

intrude

cause

knock

break open

sinew

skill

forcefulness

force out

menace

spur

mightiness

storm

move

browbeat

dragoon

terrorize

oppress

troop

tyrannize

vehemence

vim

assert

persuade

military force

force-out

hustle

pressurize

military unit

force play

overpower

forcibly

duress

puissance

by force

spring

arms

virtue

course

mandate

shoulder

make do

penetrate

personnel

military group

whip

harass

leverage

pith

harry

lever

deflower

bear down on

F

F

poke

hector

effort

rush

authority

elbow

appeal

host

hound

exertion

hurry

impose upon

commit rape upon

blow upon

restrain

control

push forward

encourage

require

stress

prise

prize

bound

open

threaten

toughness

exact

bludgeon

body

troops

obtrude

impetuosity

necessitate

overcharge

muscle

💪

inflict

precipitance

predestination

press forward

press on

pressurise

prestige

prevail

prod

produce

proficiency

promote

protrude

provoke

pry

pull off

pump

push up

put on

quality

fob off on

raid

foist on

raise

realm

reduce

repress

resist

robustness

round up

ruggedness

rule

run down

sag

sandbag

savagery

scare

😨

scold

score

screw

send

separate

set

set up

soften up

spark off

speed

speed up

spirit

spur on

spurt

stand

state

steamroller

stick

strong

sturdiness

subdue

suppress

suppression

sword

tag

take

target

tax

thews

throng

trade

trespass

tug

unload

velocity

vigorousness

viridity

vis

waste away

weaken

weigh

weigh down

welter

wreak

wrench

🔧

wrest

zap

⚡

birr

bull through

exert pressure

give an order

jam into

make an effort

obtrude upon

stoop low

strenght

draw forth

treat cruelly

weigh on

with all one’s might

water current

armed might

coene

abuse

crack

stroke

validity

control one’s mind

sexually assault

use violence

edge up

shoulder in

thrust ahead

criminally assault

cause to do

get by force

accelerate

ache

actuate

advance

agency

ambition

apply

appoint

aptitude

arrest

ask

awe

awesomeness

bag

barge

batch

battery

🔋

bear down

blackmail

blow

bluff

boss

brawn

break

break in

bring about

briskness

bull

bulldoze

burning

burst

carry weight

catalyst

catch up with

clamp

🗜️

clutch

cogency

combustion

commove

competence

compression

conscript

corps

craft

create

crew

crowd

cruelty

cultivate

curb

dash

💨

defile

depress

desecrate

detain

determination

direct

disobey

distort

domination

driven

echelon

edge in

effectuate

efficacy

efficiency

element

encroach

engender

enlist

enroll

escort

exaction

excite

expedition

extract

f

f

faculty

fervor

figure

firmness

fitness

follow

forced

forcible

forcibleness

frighten

further

gathering

go

goad

god

greenness

grow

guard

💂

hardness

haste

hasten

head

honeycomb

hooliganism

ill-use

impact

imperative

impress

imprint

impulsion

incite

indoctrinate

infiltrate

inspire

interlope

intersection

invade

irrupt

jerk

jostle

kingdom

knot

🪢

leather

legion

life

lift

lushness

manhandle

manpower

mastery

merit

military power

mob

muscularity

nudge

number

🔢

obligate

obligation

onslaught

pack

palm

party

🥳

passion

pawn

pick up

pin down

pithiness

plan

platoon

plunge

posse comitatus

pouch

👝

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/fɔɹs/

Etimologia (English)

Inherited from anglès mitjà: force

Cognate with islandès: foss

Cognate with noruec: foss

Cognate with suec: fors

Inherited from anglès mitjà: forcen

In summary

From Middle English force, forz, fors, from Old Norse fors (“waterfall”), from Proto-Germanic *fursaz (“waterfall”). Cognate with Icelandic foss (“waterfall”), Norwegian foss (“waterfall”), Swedish fors (“waterfall”). Doublet of foss.

Frases

Many villages also have a Neighborhood Watch program in force .

They force their way through it and reappear on the other side .

The whole police force standing on it's ear .

The levanter was still getting stronger , and he felt its force on his face .

The second type of frictional force acting on a skier is drag .