[ UK /fˈɔːst/ ]
[ US /ˈfɔɹst/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. produced by or subjected to forcing
    forced-air heating
    forced convection in plasma generators
    furnaces of the forced-convection type
  2. made necessary by an unexpected situation or emergency
    a forced landing
  3. lacking spontaneity; not natural
    forced heartiness
    a constrained smile
    a strained smile
  4. forced or compelled
    promised to abolish forced labor
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How To Use forced In A Sentence

  • Not that I'm denigrating the effort - I'm good for a few quid once I've got a few beers in me later tonight - but the enforced jollity does occasionally grate.
  • Both groups are forced to suffer the prejudices that have been fuelled by the tabloids and absorbed by an uninformed public.
  • And while Annie inflicts humiliation and degradation and withholds pain relief and food Paul is forced to write a new chapter every day simply to stay alive.
  • The main superstructure frame is formed from reinforced concrete with post-tensioned, ribbed slab floors.
  • By then, the town had been well-fortified and withstood a siege of nine weeks before the Mexicans were forced to surrender from starvation. Cinco de Mayo: What is everybody celebrating?
  • Open, and I was quietly confident that I would have a chance, said Leaney, who was forced to change caddies after his original caddie, Justin Hoyle, fell ill after the first round. USATODAY.com - Leaney's second at U.S. Open earns PGA Tour card
  • Smith enforced a highly unpopular no-guns policy in the cowtown, and for the most part, made the law stick by beating the hell out of people with his bare hands. The Four Toughest Men of the Old West
  • If the point of the tongue be placed between the teeth, and air from the mouth be forced between them, the Th sibilant is produced, as in thigh, and should have a proper character, as [TN: Looks like the Greek 'phi']. The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes
  • Although I have finally been given a small piece of work to do (nothing crucial, generous deadline), I'm finding it hard to apply myself after such a long period of enforced inactivity.
  • Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of the heathen altars
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