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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FORCED, pp.
1. Compelled; impelled; driven by violence; urged; stormed; ravished.
2. a. Affected; overstrained; unnatural; as a forced style.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: produced by or subjected to forcing; "forced-air heating"; "furnaces of the forced-convection type"; "forced convection in plasma generators"
2: forced or compelled; "promised to abolish forced labor"
3: made necessary by an unexpected situation or emergency; "a forced landing"
4: lacking spontaneity; not natural; "a constrained smile"; "forced heartiness"; "a strained smile" [syn: constrained, forced, strained]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: circa 1537 1. compelled by force or necessity ; involuntary <a forced landing> 2. done or produced with effort, exertion, or pressure <a forced laugh> • forcedly adverb

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Force Force, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Forced; p. pr. & vb. n. Forcing.] [OF. forcier, F. forcer, fr. LL. forciare, fortiare. See Force, n.] 1. 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. 2. To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind. 3. To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one;s will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon. To force their monarch and insult the court. --Dryden. I should have forced thee soon wish other arms. --Milton. To force a spotless virgin's chastity. --Shak. 4. To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress. 5. To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc. It stuck so fast, so deeply buried lay That scarce the victor forced the steel away. --Dryden. To force the tyrant from his seat by war. --Sahk. Ethelbert ordered that none should be forced into religion. --Fuller. 6. To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce. [Obs.] What can the church force more? --J. Webster. 7. 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 consient or metaphor; to force a laugh; to force fruits. High on a mounting wave my head I bore, Forcing my strength, and gathering to the shore. --Dryden. 8. (Whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none. 9. To provide with forces; to re["e]nforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison. [Obs.] --Shak. 10. To allow the force of; to value; to care for. [Obs.] For me, I force not argument a straw. --Shak. Syn: To compel; constrain; oblige; necessitate; coerce; drive; press; impel.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

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. ADJ: ADJ n 2. A forced action is something that you do because circumstances make it necessary. He made a forced landing on a highway. ADJ: ADJ n 3. 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. ? natural ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Compelled, constrained, enforced. 2. Strained, unnatural, catachrestic, farfetched, studiously sought.

Moby Thesaurus

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