1. subjected to violence; not spontaneous, compulsory, not voluntary; artificial, constrained; emergency (i.e. forced landing of a plane). forced\forced\ , a. done or produced with force or great labor, or by extraordinary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure; as, a forced style; a forced laugh.forced draught. see:
under draught.forced march (mil.), a march of one or more days made with all possible speed. -- for"ced*ly (#), adv. -- for"ced*ness , n.forced adj.
2. produced by or subjected to forcing: "forced-air heating"; "furnaces of the forced-convection type"; "forced convection in plasma generators".
3. forced or compelled; "promised to abolish forced labor".
4. made necessary by an unexpected situation or emergency; "a forced landing" [syn: unexpected].
5. lacking spontaneity; not natural; "a constrained smile"; "forced heartiness"; "a strained smile" [syn: constrained, strained].
6. Done or produced with force or great labor, or by extraordinary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure; as, a forced style; a forced laugh. made necessary by an unexpected situation or emergency; "a forced landing" forced or compelled; "promised to abolish forced labor" produced by or subjected to forcing; "forced-air heating"; "furnaces of the forced-convection type"; "forced convection in plasma generators".
7. To stuff; to lard; to farce.
8. A waterfall; a cascade.
9. 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.
10. Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
11. 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.
12. Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things; violence.
13. Validity; efficacy.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind.
17. To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one's will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon.
18. To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
19. To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc.
20. To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
21. 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 conceit or metaphor; to force a laugh; to force fruits.
22. To compel to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none.
23. To provide with forces; to reënforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
24. To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
25. To use violence; to make violent effort; to strive; to endeavor.
26. To make a difficult matter of anything; to labor; to hesitate; hence, to force of, to make much account of; to regard.
27. To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter. 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" a powerful effect or influence; "the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them" a group of people having the power of effective action; "he joined forces with a band of adventurers" group of people willing to obey orders; "a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens" the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity; "force equals mass times acceleration" impose or thrust urgently, importunately, or inexorably; "She forced her diet fads on him" do forcibly; exert force; "Don't force it!" force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically; "She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives me mad".
28. 1. A forced action is something that you do because someone else makes you do it. A system of forced labour was used on the cocoa plantations.
29. A forced action is something that you do because circumstances make it necessary. He made a forced landing on a highway.
30. If you describe something as forced, you mean it does not happen naturally and easily. a forced smile She called him darling. It sounded so forced. ¡Ù natural.
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