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(n) a unit that is part of some military service; "he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men"
(n) one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority; "the mysterious presence of an evil power"; "may the force be with you"; "the forces of evil"
(n) (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity; "force equals mass times acceleration"
(n) group of people willing to obey orders; "a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens"
(n) a powerful effect or influence; "the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them"
(n) an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists); "he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one"
(n) 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"
(n) a group of people having the power of effective action; "he joined forces with a band of adventurers"
(n) (of a law) having legal validity; "the law is still in effect"
(v) to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"; "He squeezed her for information"
(v) urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate
(v) move with force, "He pushed the table into a corner"
(v) impose or thrust urgently, importunately, or inexorably; "She forced her diet fads on him"
(v) squeeze like a wedge into a tight space; "I squeezed myself into the corner"
(v) force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically; "She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives me mad"
(v) do forcibly; exert force; "Don''t force it!"
(v) cause to move along the ground by pulling; "draw a wagon"; "pull a sled"
(v) take by force; "Storm the fort"

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