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Forced

adjective

Produced by or subjected to forcing. "Furnaces of the forced-convection type" , "Forced convection in plasma generators"

Forced or compelled.

Made necessary by an unexpected situation or emergency.

Lacking spontaneity; not natural. Synonyms: constrained, strained. "Forced heartiness" , "A strained smile"

Force

verb

(past & past part. forced; pres. part. forcing)

To cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :. Synonyms: coerce, hale, pressure, squeeze. "He squeezed her for information"

Urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate. Synonym: impel.

Move with force,. Synonym: push.

Impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably. Synonym: thrust.

Squeeze like a wedge into a tight space. Synonyms: squeeze, wedge.

Force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically. Synonyms: drive, ram. "He drives me mad"

Cause to move by pulling. Synonyms: draw, pull. "Pull a sled"

Do forcibly; exert force.

Take by force. Synonym: storm.

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"Forced" Quotes from Famous Books

... but I had concealed from him the fact, and had also promised her another interview, and now with vision grown suddenly clear I could realize how he would receive my unwilling confession, after a whole week's silence. With aching head and heart I wondered at the cruelty of circumstance that forced the innocent ...

— Medoline Selwyn's Work • Mrs. J. J. Colter

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... of mind for which business transactions are obvious). He had studied the public he set out to capture. He presented the life it knew—the moving, changing, fantastically adventurous life of the middle classes. Until Jevons rushed on them and forced their eyes open, you may say at the point of the bayonet, the middle classes didn't know they were moving and changing and being adventurous. Nobody ...

— The Belfry • May Sinclair

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... Morganstein forced a laugh. It had a frosty sound; his lips were blue. "Excuse me," he responded. "Anywhere else I wouldn't hesitate, but ...

— The Rim of the Desert • Ada Woodruff Anderson

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... a certain day the crews would go no farther, being worn out by storms, for in those seas the tides were like cataracts and the waves were mountains. The admiral, Bartholomew Diaz, was forced to put about with a heavy heart, for he believed that a little way to the east he should find the southern cape of Africa. He steered west by north, looking for no land till Guinea was sighted. "But on the second morning we saw land to the northward, and following it westward came ...

— The Path of the King • John Buchan

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... of prey on that continent, they are by no means so courageous or ferocious as those of Europe, particularly in Spain or the south of France, in which countries they commit dreadful ravages both on man and beast; whereas a prairie wolf, except forced by desperation, will seldom or ...

— Monsieur Violet • Frederick Marryat

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