• 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"
• (of a law) having legal validity; "the law is still in effect"
• 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"
• a powerful effect or influence; "the Force of his eloquence easily persuaded them"
• a unit that is part of some military service; "he sent Caesar a Force of six thousand men"
• a group of people having the power of effective action; "he joined Forces with a band of adventurers"
• group of people willing to obey orders; "a public Force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens"
• 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"
• (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity; "Force equals mass times acceleration"
• impose or thrust urgently, importunately, or inexorably; "She Forced her diet fads on him"
• do forcibly; exert Force; "Don''t Force it!"
• cause to move along the ground by pulling; "draw a wagon"; "pull a sled"
• Force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically; "She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives me mad"
• squeeze like a wedge into a tight space; "I squeezed myself into the corner"
• take by Force; "Storm the fort"
• urge or Force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate
• move with Force, "He pushed the table into a corner"
• 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"

'Force' in other languages