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Word Meanings - COMPULSIVELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

By compulsion; by force.

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  • FORCE
    To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
  • FORCEPS
    The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig. Dressing forceps. See under Dressing. (more info) 1. A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies
  • FORCEFUL
    Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty. -- Force"ful*ly, adv. Against the steed he threw His forceful spear. Dryden.
  • FORCEMENT
    The act of forcing; compulsion. It was imposed upon us by constraint; And will you count such forcement treachery J. Webster.
  • FORCED
    Done or produced with force or great labor, or by extraordinary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure; as, a forced style; a forced laugh. Forced draught. See under Draught. -- Forced march , a march of one or more
  • COMPULSION
    The act of compelling, or the state of being compelled; the act of driving or urging by force or by physical or moral constraint; subjection to force. If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion. Shak.
  • FORCELESS
    Having little or no force; feeble. These forceless flowers like sturdy trees support me. Shak.
  • FORCE PUMP
    A pump having a solid piston, or plunger, for drawing and forcing a liquid, as water, through the valves; in distinction from a pump having a bucket, or valved piston. A pump adapted for delivering water at a considerable height above the pump,
  • FORCER
    1. One who, or that which, forces or drives. The solid piston of a force pump; the instrument by which water is forced in a pump. A small hand pump for sinking pits, draining cellars, etc.
  • FORCEMEAT
    Meat chopped fine and highly seasoned, either served up alone, or used as a stuffing.
  • REINFORCEMENT
    See REëNFORCEMENT
  • DEFORCEOR
    See DEFORCIANT
  • DEFORCE
    To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold. To resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force, as an officer in the execution of his duty. Burrill.
  • REENFORCE
    To strengthen with new force, assistance, material, or support; as, to reënforce an argument; to reënforce a garment; especially, to strengthen with additional troops, as an army or a fort, or with additional ships, as a fleet.
  • OVERFORCE
    Excessive force; violence.
  • AFFORCE
    To reënforce; to strengthen. Hallam.
  • REENFORCEMENT
    1. The act of reënforcing, or the state of being reënforced. 2. That which reënforces; additional force; especially, additional troops or force to augment the strength of any army, or ships to strengthen a navy or fleet.
  • ENFORCED
    Compelled; forced; not voluntary. "Enforced wrong." "Enforced smiles." Shak. -- En*for"ced*ly, adv. Shak.
  • REENFORCED CONCRETE
    Concrete having within its mass a system of strengthening iron or steel supports. = Ferro-concrete.
  • REINFORCE
    See T
  • PERFORCE
    By force; of necessary; at any rate. Shak.
  • ENFORCEMENT
    1. The act of enforcing; compulsion. He that contendeth against these enforcements may easily master or resist them. Sir W. Raleigh. Confess 't was hers, and by what rough enforcement You got it from her. Shak. 2. A giving force to; a putting in
  • COUNTERFORCE
    An opposing force.

 

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