Synonyms for force
fɔrs, foʊrsforce

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1. force

   An army is an organized body of men armed for war, ordinarily considerable in numbers, always independent in organization so far as not to be a constituent part of any other command. Organization, unity, and independence, rather than numbers are the essentials of an army. We speak of the invading army of Cortes or Pizarro, tho either body was contemptible in numbers from a modern military standpoint. We may have a little army, a large army, or a vast army. Host is used for any vast and orderly assemblage; as, the stars are called the heavenly host. Multitude expresses number without order or organization; a multitude of armed men is not an army, but a mob. Legion (from the Latin) and phalanx (from the Greek) are applied by a kind of poetic license to modern forces; the plural legions is preferred to the singular. Military is a general word for land-forces; the military may include all the armed soldiery of a nation, or the term may be applied to any small detached company, as at a fort, in distinction from civilians. Any organized body of men by whom the law or will of a people is executed is a force; the word is a usual term for the police of any locality.

   Synonyms:
   armament, army, array, forces, host, legions, military, multitude, phalanx, soldiers, soldiery, troops

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1. force

   Synonyms:
   power, strength, agency, instrumentality, compulsion, cogency, vigor, might, dint, vehemence, pressure, host, army, coercion, validity, violence

   Antonyms:
   feebleness, weakness, counteraction, neutralization, inefficiency, inconclusiveness, debility, pointlessness

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1. forcenoun

   a powerful effect or influence

   "the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them"

   Synonyms:
   force play, military group, effect, military unit, violence, strength, power, force out, force-out, forcefulness, military force, personnel

2. forcenoun

   (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity

   "force equals mass times acceleration"

   Synonyms:
   force play, military group, effect, military unit, violence, strength, power, force out, force-out, forcefulness, military force, personnel

3. force, forcefulness, strengthnoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   power, long suit, military posture, military strength, military group, durability, military force, intensity level, force play, strength, military capability, violence, effectiveness, effect, specialty, force out, speciality, posture, potency, persuasiveness, metier, intensity, strong point, force-out, strong suit, personnel, forcefulness, military unit, forte, enduringness, lastingness

4. force, personnelnoun

   group of people willing to obey orders

   "a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens"

   Synonyms:
   force play, military group, effect, military unit, violence, strength, power, personnel department, staff office, force out, force-out, forcefulness, personnel office, military force, personnel

5. military unit, military force, military group, forcenoun

   a unit that is part of some military service

   "he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men"

   Synonyms:
   force play, military group, effect, military unit, violence, strength, power, force out, force-out, forcefulness, military force, personnel

6. violence, forcenoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   power, military unit, furiousness, military group, vehemence, military force, force play, strength, ferocity, violence, effect, wildness, force out, fierceness, fury, force-out, personnel, forcefulness

7. power, forcenoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   world power, ability, exponent, index, major power, great power, might, military group, tycoon, military force, force play, strength, magnate, top executive, violence, effect, business leader, powerfulness, mightiness, power, baron, big businessman, superpower, force out, mogul, office, force-out, personnel, forcefulness, military unit, king

8. forcenoun

   a group of people having the power of effective action

   "he joined forces with a band of adventurers"

   Synonyms:
   force play, military group, effect, military unit, violence, strength, power, force out, force-out, forcefulness, military force, personnel

9. effect, forcenoun

   (of a law) having legal validity

   "the law is still in effect"

   Synonyms:
   power, consequence, military unit, event, military group, core, force out, military force, force play, strength, gist, violence, effect, result, burden, essence, outcome, force-out, upshot, personnel, forcefulness, issue, impression

10. force out, force-out, force play, forceverb

    a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base

    "the shortstop got the runner at second on a force"

    Synonyms:
    military group, effect, military unit, force play, strength, force-out, force out, power, forcefulness, military force, violence, personnel

11. coerce, hale, squeeze, pressure, forceverb

    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"

    Synonyms:
    draw, storm, blackjack, pressure, crush, thrust, rack, ram, hale, press, blackmail, twitch, gouge, tweet, embrace, impel, shove, twinge, compress, hug, drive, constrict, cart, contract, extort, stuff, squeeze, squash, compact, pinch, drag, wring, mash, coerce, push, bosom, wedge, squelch, pull, haul

12. impel, forceverb

    urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate

    Synonyms:
    pressure, hale, coerce, squeeze, storm, push, impel, wedge, thrust, ram, propel, pull, draw, drive

13. push, forceverb

    move with force, "He pushed the table into a corner"

    Synonyms:
    fight, tug, ram, promote, agitate, hale, crusade, drive, advertise, thrust, draw, campaign, pull, coerce, storm, squeeze, pressure, wedge, labor, labour, crowd, impel, press, bear on, advertize, push

14. force, thrustverb

    impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably

    "She forced her diet fads on him"

    Synonyms:
    stuff, throw, pressure, hale, drive, coerce, thrust, draw, push up, shove, storm, squeeze, pull, hurtle, wedge, ram, hurl, impel, lunge, pierce, push

15. wedge, squeeze, forceverb

    squeeze like a wedge into a tight space

    "I squeezed myself into the corner"

    Synonyms:
    extort, draw, storm, stick, pressure, crush, thrust, rack, ram, hale, press, twitch, gouge, tweet, embrace, impel, shove, twinge, compress, hug, drive, lodge, contract, deposit, stuff, squeeze, squash, compact, pinch, wring, mash, coerce, push, bosom, wedge, squelch, pull, constrict

16. force, drive, ramverb

    force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically

    "She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives me mad"

    Synonyms:
    tug, pressure, force back, thrust, get, ram, crash, hale, jam, take, impel, repel, cram, aim, storm, pull, drive, coerce, ride, pound, chock up, wad, ram down, labour, motor, squeeze, push, repulse, draw, labor, wedge, jampack, push back, beat back

17. pull, draw, forceverb

    cause to move by pulling

    "draw a wagon"; "pull a sled"

    Synonyms:
    absorb, take in, pressure, suck up, pull in, attract, get, overstretch, thread, quarter, ram, string, perpetrate, pull back, commit, depict, guide, describe, drag, disembowel, thrust, suck, delineate, deplumate, rive, make, hale, soak up, tie, cast, storm, pull, get out, take out, drive, coerce, draw and quarter, root for, push, sop up, puff, reap, draw out, pass, squeeze, pluck, imbibe, impel, deplume, pull up, line, withdraw, pull out, draw, draw off, wedge, run, tear, rend, trace, extract, draw in, rip, displume, take up, eviscerate

18. forceverb

    do forcibly; exert force

    "Don't force it!"

    Synonyms:
    thrust, pressure, hale, coerce, squeeze, storm, push, impel, wedge, ram, pull, draw, drive

19. storm, forceverb

    take by force

    "Storm the fort"

    Synonyms:
    ramp, pressure, hale, drive, coerce, thrust, draw, storm, squeeze, pull, rage, surprise, wedge, ram, impel, push

Matched Categories

1. • Act
   • Aggression
   • Cause
   • Influence
   • Intensity
   • Law
   • Military
   • Move
   • Organization
   • Penetrate
   • Physical Phenomenon
   • Physics
   • Social Group
   • Thrust
   • Unit
   • Validity

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1. pressure

   strength or energy as an attribute of physical action or movement

   "he was thrown backward by the force of the explosion"

   Submitted by anonymous on April 2, 2020  

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1. forcenoun

   Synonyms:
   strength (regarded as active), power, might, energy, vigor

2. forcenoun

   Synonyms:
   efficacy, efficiency, potency, validity, cogency, virtue, agency

3. forcenoun

   Synonyms:
   violence, compulsion, coercion, constraint, enforcement

4. forcenoun

   Synonyms:
   army, troop, legion, host, squadron, phalanx, regiment

5. forceverb

   Synonyms:
   compel, coerce, constrain, necessitate

6. forceverb

   Synonyms:
   impel, drive, urge, press, clap

7. forceverb

   Synonyms:
   ravish, violate, debauch, constuprate, deflour, commit a rape on

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1. forcenoun

   Synonyms:
   strength, energy, power, vigor, might, potency, cogency, validity, efficacy, efficiency, compulsion, coercion, violence, constraint, tension, impetus, armament, troops, army, legion, battalion, phalanx

   Associated words:
   dynamics, dyne, statics, perforce, dynamic, mechanics, brunt, kinit

2. forceverb

   Synonyms:
   compel, coerce, necessitate, constrain, oblige, make, impel, obtrude, extort, wrest, capture, storm, rape, ravish

   Antonyms:
   induce, inveigle, seduce, persuade

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1. List of paraphrases for "force":

   strength, forces, effect, vigour, unficyp, power, kraft, troops, compel, place, isaf, task, oblige, working, team, fuerza, troop, undof, vigor, forza, unifil, violence, work, forcibly, load, strengths, army, tasks, sfor, effective, applicable, gendarmerie

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How to use force in a sentence?

1. Michael Vidler:

   Excessive force was used and he was assaulted while he was on the ground, police kicked and punched him and effectively sexually assaulted him -- his private parts were grabbed repeatedly and painfully. We're considering our next steps and will decide over the next few days how to proceed.

2. Regina Rodriguez:

   . Shortly before the couple were buried, the gunman’s first wife spoke publicly for the first time since the massacre. Tessa Brennaman said Tessa Brennaman lived in constant fear of Kelley, a former airman, and said he had once placed a handgun against Tessa Brennaman head and threatened to kill Tessa Brennaman. He just had a lot of demons or hatred inside of him, Brennaman, 25, told CBS’s Inside Edition. In 2012, while stationed at an Air Force base in New Mexico, Kelley received a court-martial conviction for physically abusing Brennaman and fracturing his infant stepson’s skull. At the Grace Bible Church in La Vernia where the Richard Rodriguez funeral service was held, about 500 people gathered to hear tributes to the couple, who were married in 2006. Rodriguez’s first wife died 15 years ago. Richard Rodriguez only child, daughter Regina Rodriguez, 33, said it was a small comfort that Regina Rodriguez father and Therese died together, deeply in love and inside their place of worship. What a perfect way to leave this world, not one of them going through mourning and burying each other, because I know that my dad could n’t do it again.

3. Roberta Ramirez:

   He just told her to stay put, I'm on my way, but by the time he got there, the water was just torrential. There was such force so that even if she had gotten out of the vehicle, it probably would have carried her away.

4. Marianne Williamson:

   This is part of the dark underbelly of American society, the racism, the bigotry, and the entire conversation that we're having here tonight -- if Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan think any of this wonkiness is going to deal with this dark psychic force of the collectivized hatred that this President is bringing up in this country, then I'm afraid that the Democrats are going to see some very dark days, we need to say it like it is.

5. Ted Cruz:

   The facts are we’re facing now a divided America when it comes to the economy, it’s true that the top 1 percent are doing great under Barack Obama. Today, the top 1 percent earn a higher share of the national income than any year since 1928. The sad reality is that with big government, under the Obama administration, the rich and powerful in the Obama administration have gotten fat and happy. But working men and women across the country, we have the lowest labor force participation since 1978.