force
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(verb) impose or thrust urgently, importunately, or inexorably; "She forced her diet fads on him" |
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Synonyms: thrust |
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Related Words: compel, obligate, oblige, stick, sting |
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(verb) do forcibly; exert force; "Don't force it!" |
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Related Words: act, move, pull |
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(verb) physical or metaphorical, as in "She rammed her mind into focus" |
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Synonyms: drive, ram, run |
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Related Words: thrust, toe |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: forcefulness, strength |
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Related Words: brunt, energy, impulse, intensity, intensiveness, momentum, stress, vigor, vigour |
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(noun) a powerful effect or influence: "the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them" |
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Related Words: duress, influence, lifeblood, pressure, wheels |
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(noun) a group of people having the power of effective action; "he joined forces with a band of adventurers" |
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Related Words: social group |
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(noun) group of people willing to obey orders; "a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens" |
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Synonyms: personnel |
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Related Words: armed forces, armed service, constabulary, hands, law, line personnel, management personnel, manpower, men, military, military personnel, military police, military service, organisation, organization, paramilitary, paramilitary organization, patrol, police, police force, private security force, rank, rank and file, security force, service, soldiery, staff, troops, work force, workforce |
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(noun) the physical influence that produces a change in a physical quantity; "force equals mass times acceleration" |
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Related Words: affinity, attraction, attractive force, centrifugal force, centripetal force, chemical attraction, cohesion, coriolis force, drift, impetus, impulsion, magnetomotive force, moment, physical phenomenon, propulsion, pull, push, reaction, repulsion, repulsive force, stress, thrust, torque, torsion, vital force, vitality |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: violence |
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Related Words: aggression, hostility, public violence, riot |
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(verb) take by force; "Storm the fort" |
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Synonyms: storm |
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Related Words: penetrate |
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(verb) urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate |
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Synonyms: impel |
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Related Words: cause, do, make |
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(verb) move with force, "He pushed the table into a corner"; "She pushed her chin out" |
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Synonyms: push |
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Related Words: beat back, displace, drive, flick, flip, force back, jam, jerk, jostle, move, muscle into, nose, nudge, obtrude, poke at, prod, push aside, push away, push back, push out, push up, repel, repulse, shove, squeeze, stuff, thrust, thrust out, topple, tumble |
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(noun) (of a law) having legal validity; "the law is still in effect" |
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Synonyms: effect |
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Related Words: validity, validness |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: power |
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Related Words: Moloch, causal agency, causal agent, cause, influence, juggernaut |
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(verb) cause to move along the ground by pulling; "draw a wagon"; "pull a sled" |
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Synonyms: draw, pull |
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Related Words: abduct, adduct, attract, cart, displace, drag, draw in, entrain, haul, hike up, hitch up, jerk, move, pick, pick off, pluck, plunk, pull, pull back, pull in, pull off, stretch, trail, tug, tweak, twitch, winch, yank |
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(verb) squeeze like a wedge into a tight space; "I squeezed myself into the corner" |
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Synonyms: squeeze, wedge |
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Related Words: compact, compress, displace, impact, move, pack together |
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(verb) to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city" |
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Synonyms: coerce, pressure |
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Related Words: bludgeon, bring oneself, compel, dragoon, drive, obligate, oblige, railroad, squeeze for, steamroller, terrorize |
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(noun) a unit that is part of some military service; "he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men" |
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Synonyms: military force, military unit |
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Related Words: air unit, army unit, command, commando, contingent, detail, echelon, enemy, headquarters, legion, militia, naval unit, phalanx, reserves, social unit, task force, unit |
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