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FORCED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lacking spontaneity; not natural
Example:
a strained smile
Synonyms:
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Similar:
affected; unnatural (speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Made necessary by an unexpected situation or emergency
Example:
a forced landing
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Similar:
unscheduled (not scheduled or not on a regular schedule)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Forced or compelled
Example:
promised to abolish forced labor
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Adjectives
Similar:
involuntary; nonvoluntary; unvoluntary (not subject to the control of the will)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Produced by or subjected to forcing
Example:
forced convection in plasma generators
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Participle:
force (move with force)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb force
Context examples:
A decrease in the fraction of the forced vital capacity that is exhaled in a specific number of seconds.
(Decreased Forced Expiratory Volume, NCI Thesaurus)
This would have forced changes to how and when Cassini's instruments would be able to make observations.
(Cassini Finds 'The Big Empty' Close to Saturn, NASA)
Yet the dominant meerkats still lived an average of 60% longer than subordinates, as the lower ranking meerkats were increasingly forced to risk more and more time outside the group as they grew older.
(Breeder meerkats age faster, but their subordinates still die younger, University of Cambridge)
The elegance of the breakfast set forced itself on Catherine's notice when they were seated at table; and, luckily, it had been the general's choice.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
"But events in 2016 and 2017 forced us to reevaluate that."
(Data from robotic drifters explain mysterious holes in Antarctic sea ice, National Science Foundation)
You know my powers, my dear Watson, and yet at the end of three months I was forced to confess that I had at last met an antagonist who was my intellectual equal.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In her daily ministrations upon the prisoner she was forced to grit her teeth and steel herself, body and spirit.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is condemned I shall be forced to use it.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Help was obtained, and the door forced.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Uriah Heep, said Mr. Wickfield, in a monotonous forced way, is active in the business, Trotwood.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
