Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to force
Participle: forced
Gerund: forcing
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | force |
| you | force |
| he;she;it | forces |
| we | force |
| you | force |
| they | force |
Perfect
| I | have forced |
| you | have forced |
| he;she;it | has forced |
| we | have forced |
| you | have forced |
| they | have forced |
Past
| I | forced |
| you | forced |
| he;she;it | forced |
| we | forced |
| you | forced |
| they | forced |
Pluperfect
| I | had forced |
| you | had forced |
| he;she;it | had forced |
| we | had forced |
| you | had forced |
| they | had forced |
Future
| I | will force |
| you | will force |
| he;she;it | will force |
| we | will force |
| you | will force |
| they | will force |
Future Perfect
| I | will have forced |
| you | will have forced |
| he;she;it | will have forced |
| we | will have forced |
| you | will have forced |
| they | will have forced |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | force |
| you | force |
| he;she;it | force |
| we | force |
| you | force |
| they | force |
Perfect
| I | have forced |
| you | have forced |
| he;she;it | have forced |
| we | have forced |
| you | have forced |
| they | have forced |
Imperfect
| I | forced |
| you | forced |
| he;she;it | forced |
| we | forced |
| you | forced |
| they | forced |
Pluperfect
| I | had forced |
| you | had forced |
| he;she;it | had forced |
| we | had forced |
| you | had forced |
| they | had forced |
Conditional
Present
| I | would force |
| you | would force |
| he;she;it | would force |
| we | would force |
| you | would force |
| they | would force |
Perfect
| I | would have forced |
| you | would have forced |
| he;she;it | would have forced |
| we | would have forced |
| you | would have forced |
| they | would have forced |
Imperative
| you | force |
| we | Let's force |
| you | force |
Verbs conjugated like 'force'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'force'
farce,
forge,
afforce,
bore,
coerce,
core,
deforce,
efforce,
enforce,
face,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- coerce
- require, concuss, compel, enforce, make, constrain, demand, shotgun
- drive
- impel, propel
- overcome
- overpower, rape, ravish, violate
Antonyms
- drive
- drag, haul, halt, hinder
Additional Information
Etymology
1. c.1300, from O.Fr.
force, from L.L.
fortia, from neut. pl. of L.
fortis "strong" (see fort). Meaning "body of armed men, army" first recorded 1375. The verb is first attested 1330; its original sense was "to ravish" (a woman).
2. From Middle English forcen, from Old French forcier, from Late Latin *fortiāre, from Latin fortia. See: Old French '
forcier'.
Verbs referencing "force"
Irish
fórsáil.
Sample Sentences
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[...] not hold more than two enormous portmanteaus in some odd corner out of sight (portmanteaus which could now no more be got in at the door, not to say stowed away, than a giraffe could be persuaded or forced into a flower-pot ): that this utterly impracticable, thoroughly hopeless, and profoundly preposterous box, had the remotest reference to, or connection with, those chaste and pretty, not to say [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] and stumbling over other people 's; disposing themselves comfortably in wrong cabins, and creating a most horrible confusion by having to turn out again; madly bent upon opening locked doors, and on forcing a passage into all kinds of out-of-the-way places where there is no thoroughfare; sending wild stewards, with elfin hair, to and fro upon the breezy decks on unintelligible errands, impossible of [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] as I have now, and could no more help laughing than I can at any other comical incident, happening under circumstances the most favourable to its enjoyment. About midnight we shipped a sea, which forced its way through the skylights, burst open the doors above, and came raging and roaring down into the ladies ’ cabin, to the unspeakable consternation of my wife and a little Scotch lady—who, by the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] of their fingers, as letter after letter conveys their meaning to her mind. It is in this way that she converses with her blind playmates, and nothing can more forcibly show the power of mind in forcing matter to its purpose than a meeting between them. For if great talent and skill are necessary for two pantomimes to paint their thoughts and feelings by the movements of the body, and the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] of another officer on the opposite side; and all in one great apartment. Unless this watch be corrupted or sleeping on his post, it is impossible for a man to escape; for even in the event of his forcing the iron door of his cell without noise (which is exceedingly improbable ), the moment he appears outside, and steps into that one of the five galleries on which it is situated, he must be plainly [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] week, some new most paltry exhibition of that narrow-minded and injurious Party Spirit, which is the Simoom of America, sickening and blighting everything of wholesome life within its reach, was forced upon my notice; but I never turned my back upon it with feelings of such deep disgust and measureless contempt, as when I crossed the threshold of this madhouse.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] which are on a height near the city, are no less ornamental than useful, being tastefully laid out as a public garden, and kept in the best and neatest order. The river is dammed at this point, and forced by its own power into certain high tanks or reservoirs, whence the whole city, to the top stories of the houses, is supplied at a very trifling expense.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] were brought in. When they get outside the gate, they stop, and look first one way and then the other; not knowing which to take. Sometimes they stagger as if they were drunk, and sometimes are forced to lean against the fence, they 're so bad:—but they clear off in course of time. ’
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] is a railway to Richmond. The tract of country through which it takes its course was once productive; but the soil has been exhausted by the system of employing a great amount of slave labour in forcing crops, without strengthening the land: and it is now little better than a sandy desert overgrown with trees. Dreary and uninteresting as its aspect is, I was glad to the heart to find anything on [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] lofty virtues, are deplorable tenements, fences unrepaired, walls crumbling into ruinous heaps. Hinting gloomily at things below the surface, these, and many other tokens of the same description, force themselves upon the notice, and are remembered with depressing influence, when livelier features are forgotten.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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I forced her to come. And whatever has happened here
(Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari)