[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
      1913 webster

   2. to compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force
      conviction on the mind.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

            to force their monarch and insult the court.
                                                  --dryden.
      1913 webster

            i should have forced thee soon wish other arms.
                                                  --milton.
      1913 webster

            to force a spotless virgin's chastity. --shak.
      1913 webster

   4. to obtain, overcome, or win by strength; to take by
      violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault;
      to storm, as a fortress; as, to force the castle; to force
      a lock.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

            it stuck so fast, so deeply buried lay
            that scarce the victor forced the steel away.
                                                  --dryden.
      1913 webster

            to force the tyrant from his seat by war. --sahk.
      1913 webster

            ethelbert ordered that none should be forced into
            religion.                             --fuller.
      1913 webster

   6. to put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding;
      to enforce. obs.
      1913 webster

            what can the church force more?       --j. webster.
      1913 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 conceit or metaphor; to
      force a laugh; to force fruits.
      1913 webster

            high on a mounting wave my head i bore,
            forcing my strength, and gathering to the shore.
                                                  --dryden.
      1913 webster

   8. whist to compel an adversary or partner to trump a
      trick by leading a suit of which he has none.
      1913 webster

   9. to provide with forces; to re"enforce; to strengthen by
      soldiers; to man; to garrison. obs. --shak.
      1913 webster

   10. to allow the force of; to value; to care for. obs.
       1913 webster

             for me, i force not argument a straw. --shak.

   syn: to compel; constrain; oblige; necessitate; coerce;
        drive; press; impel.
        1913 webster
see also:
forced forcing force 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
   1913 webster

   forced draught. see under draught.

   forced march mil., a march of one or more days made with
      all possible speed. -- for"cedly, adv. --
      for"cedness, n.
      1913 webster
see also:
forced draught draught forced march for"cedly for"cedness 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

forced
     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" syn: unexpected
     4: lacking spontaneity; not natural; "a constrained smile";
        "forced heartiness"; "a strained smile" syn: constrained,
         strained
see also:
unexpected constrained strained 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

107 moby thesaurus words for "forced":
   herculean, latinate, affected, arduous, artificial, at odds,
   automatic, averse, awkward, backbreaking, blind, bombastic,
   burdensome, calculated, coerced, compelled, compulsive,
   conditioned, constrained, contrived, cramped, crushing, cumbrous,
   cursory, differing, disagreeing, disinclined, disobedient, distant,
   effortful, elephantine, exhausting, factitious, faked, false,
   farfetched, fatiguing, feigned, formal, fractious, grueling,
   guinde, halting, hard-earned, hard-fought, heavy, hefty,
   improbable, impulsive, indisposed, indocile, inflexible, inkhorn,
   instinctive, involuntary, killing, labored, laborious, leaden,
   lumbering, mannered, mechanical, mutinous, onerous, operose,
   opposed, oppressive, out-of-the-way, painful, perfunctory, pompous,
   ponderous, punishing, quite another thing, recalcitrant, reflex,
   reflexive, refractory, remote, resistant, rigid, self-conscious,
   sesquipedalian, something else again, stiff, stilted, strained,
   strenuous, studied, sulky, sullen, toilsome, tough, troublesome,
   turgid, unconscious, unconsenting, unintentional, unnatural,
   unthinking, unwieldy, unwilled, unwilling, unwitting, uphill,
   wearisome, wooden

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