A powerful effect or influence.

Roget 744: compulsion, coercion, coaction^†, constraint, duress, enforcement, press, conscription.    force; brute force, main force, physical force; the sword, ultima ratio [Lat.]; club law, lynch law, mob law, arguementum baculinum^†, le droit du plus fort [Fr.], martial law.    restraint etc. 751; necessity etc. 601; force majeure [Fr.]; Hobson's choice.    ... show more

Roget 820: affections, affect; character, qualities, disposition, nature, spirit, tone; temper, temperament; diathesis^†, idiosyncrasy; cast of mind, cast of soul, habit of mind, habit of soul, frame of mind, frame of soul; predilection, turn, natural turn of mind; bent, bias, predisposition, proneness, proclivity, propensity, propenseness^†, propension^†, propendency^†; vein, humor, mood, grain, mettle; sympathy etc. (love) 897.    soul, heart, breast, bosom, inner man; heart's core, heart's strings, heart's blood; heart of hearts, bottom of one's heart, penetralia mentis [Lat.]; secret and inmost recesses of the heart, cockles of one's heart; inmost heart, inmost soul; backbone.    passion, pervading spirit; ruling passion, master passion; furore^†; fullness of the heart, heyday of the blood, flesh and blood, flow of soul.    energy, fervor, fire, force.    ... show more

Roget 516: meaning; signification, significance; sense, expression; import, purport; force; drift, tenor, spirit, bearing, coloring; scope.    [important part of the meaning] substance; gist, essence, marrow, spirit etc. 5.    matter; subject, subject matter; argument, text, sum and substance.    general meaning, broad meaning, substantial meaning, colloquial meaning, literal meaning, plain meaning, simple meaning, natural meaning, unstrained meaning, true meaning, etc. (exact) 494 honest meaning, etc. 543 prima facie meaning [Lat.]; etc. (manifest) 525.    letter of the law.    literally; after acceptation.    synonym; implication, allusion etc. (latency) 526; suggestion etc. (information) 527; figure of speech etc. 521; acceptation etc. (interpretation) 522.    ... show more

Roget 348: running water.    jet, spirt^†, spurt, squirt, spout, spray, splash, rush, gush, jet d'eau [Fr.]; sluice.    water spout, water fall; cascade, force, foss^†; lin^†, linn^†; ghyll^†, Niagara; cataract, rapids, white water, catadupe^†, cataclysm; debacle, inundation, deluge; chute, washout.    rain, rainfall; serein^†; shower, scud; downpour; driving rain, drenching rain, cloudburst; hyetology^†, hyetography^†; predominance of Aquarius^†, reign of St.    Swithin; mizzle^†, drizzle, stillicidum^†, plash; dropping etc. v.; falling weather; northeaster, hurricane, typhoon.    stream, course, flux, flow, profluence^†; effluence etc. (egress) 295; defluxion^†; flowing etc. v.; current, tide, race, coulee.    spring, artesian well, fount, fountain; rill, rivulet, gill, gullet, rillet^†; streamlet, brooklet; branch [U.S.]; runnel, sike^†, burn, beck, creek, brook, bayou, stream, river; reach, tributary.    geyser, spout, waterspout.    body of water, torrent, rapids, flush, flood, swash; spring tide, high tide, full tide; bore, tidal bore, eagre^†, hygre^†; fresh, freshet; indraught^†, reflux, undercurrent, eddy, vortex, gurge^†, whirlpool, Maelstrom, regurgitation, overflow; confluence, corrivation^†.    wave, billow, surge, swell, ripple; anerythmon gelasma [Gr.]; beach comber, riffle [U.S.], rollers, ground swell, surf, breakers, white horses, whitecaps; rough sea, heavy sea, high seas, cross sea, long sea, short sea, chopping sea.    [Science of fluids in motion] hydrodynamics; hydraulics, hydraulicostatics^†; rain gauge, flowmeter; pegology^†.    irrigation etc. (water) 337; pump; watering pot, watering cart; hydrant, syringe; garden hose, lawn spray; bhisti^†, mussuk^†.    ... show more

Roget 170: agency, operation, force, working, strain, function, office, maintenance, exercise, work, swing, play; interworking^†, interaction; procurement.    causation etc. 153; instrumentality etc. 631; influence etc. 175; action etc. (voluntary) 680; modus operandi etc. 627.    quickening power, maintaining power, sustaining power; home stroke.    ... show more

Roget 72: assemblage; collection, collocation, colligation^†; compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement^†; team; concourse, conflux^†, congregation, contesseration^†, convergence etc. 290; meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home; conversazione [It] etc. (social gathering) 892; assembly, congress; convention, conventicle; gemote^†; conclave etc. (council) 696; posse, posse comitatus [Lat.]; Noah's ark.    miscellany, collectanea^†; museum, menagerie etc. (store) 636; museology^†.    crowd, throng, group; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue^†, horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party; swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo^†; bunch, drive, force, mulada [U.S.]; remuda^†; roundup [U.S.]; array, bevy, galaxy; corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment etc. (combatants) 726; host etc. (multitude) 102; populousness.    clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association etc. (party) 712.    volley, shower, storm, cloud.    group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil; set, batch, lot, pack; budget, assortment, bunch; parcel; packet, package; bundle, fascine^†, fasces^†, bale; seron^†, seroon^†; fagot, wisp, truss, tuft; shock, rick, fardel^†, stack, sheaf, haycock^†; fascicle, fascicule^†, fasciculus [Lat.], gavel, hattock^†, stook^†.    accumulation etc. (store) 636; congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau^†, tissue, mass, pyramid; bing^†; drift; snowball, snowdrift; acervation^†, cumulation; glomeration^†, agglomeration; conglobation^†; conglomeration, conglomerate; coacervate [Chem], coacervation [Chem], coagmentation^†, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum [Lat.], spicilegium^†, black hole of Calcutta; quantity etc. (greatness) 31.    collector, gatherer; whip, whipper in.    ... show more

physics The influence that produces a change in a physical quantity.

Dutch: macht, power, kracht
Polish: oddziaływanie

Physical energy or intensity:
— He hit with all the force he could muster.
— A government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man.

synonyms: forcefulness, strength.

Roget 159: strength; power etc. 157; energy etc. 171; vigor, force; main force, physical force, brute force; spring, elasticity, tone, tension, tonicity.    stoutness etc. adj.; lustihood^†, stamina, nerve, muscle, sinew, thews and sinews, physique; pith, pithiness; virtility, vitality.    athletics, athleticism^†; gymnastics, feats of strength.    adamant, steel, iron, oak, heart of oak; iron grip; grit, bone.    athlete, gymnast, acrobat; superman, Atlas, Hercules, Antaeus^†, Samson, Cyclops, Goliath; tower of strength; giant refreshed.    strengthening etc. v.; invigoration, refreshment, refocillation^†.    [Science of forces] dynamics, statics.    ... show more

Roget 157: power; potency, potentiality; jiva^†; puissance, might, force, energy etc. 171; dint; right hand, right arm; ascendency^†, sway, control; prepotency, prepollence^†; almightiness, omnipotence; authority etc. 737; strength etc. 159.    ability; ableness etc. adj.^†; competency; efficacy; efficiency, productivity, expertise (skill) 698; validity, cogency; enablement^†; vantage ground; influence etc. 175.    pressure; conductivity; elasticity; gravity, electricity, magnetism, galvanism, voltaic electricity, voltaism, electromagnetism; atomic power, nuclear power, thermonuclear power; fuel cell; hydraulic power, water power, hydroelectric power; solar power, solar energy, solar panels; tidal power; wind power; attraction; vis inertiae [Lat.], vis mortua [Lat.], vis viva [Lat.]; potential energy, dynamic energy; dynamic friction, dynamic suction; live circuit, live rail, live wire.    capability, capacity; quid valeant humeri quid ferre recusent [Lat.]; faculty, quality, attribute, endowment, virtue, gift, property, qualification, susceptibility.    ... show more

Roget 25: quantity, magnitude; size etc. (dimensions) 192; amplitude, magnitude, mass, amount, sum, quantum, measure, substance, strength, force.    [Science of quantity.] mathematics, mathesis^†.    [Logic.] category, general conception, universal predicament.    [Definite or finite quantity.] armful, handful, mouthful, spoonful, capful; stock, batch, lot, dose; yaffle^†.    ... show more

Dutch: intensiteit, kracht, lichaamskracht, sterkte

Group of people willing to obey orders:
— A public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens.

synonym: personnel.

Dutch: personeelsafdeling, personeelszaken

A unit that is part of some military service:
— He sent Caesar a force of six thousand men.

synonyms: military force, military group, military unit.

Dutch: formatie, krijgsmachtonderdeel, legerafdeling, legereenheid, legerformatie, legeronderdeel

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.

synonym: violence.

Roget 173: violence, inclemency, vehemence, might, impetuosity; boisterousness etc. adj.; effervescence, ebullition; turbulence, bluster; uproar, callithump [U.S.], riot, row, rumpus, le diable a quatre [Fr.], devil to pay, all the fat in the fire.    severity etc. 739; ferocity, rage, fury; exacerbation, exasperation, malignity; fit, paroxysm; orgasm, climax, aphrodisia^†; force, brute force; outrage; coup de main; strain, shock, shog^†; spasm, convulsion, throe; hysterics, passion etc. (state of excitability) 825.    outbreak, outburst; debacle; burst, bounce, dissilience^†, discharge, volley, explosion, blow up, blast, detonation, rush, eruption, displosion^†, torrent.    turmoil etc. (disorder) 59; ferment etc. (agitation) 315; storm, tempest, rough weather; squall etc. (wind) 349; earthquake, volcano, thunderstorm.    berserk, berserker; fury, dragon, demon, tiger, beldame, Tisiphone^†, Megaera, Alecto^†, madcap, wild beast; fire eater etc. (blusterer) 887.    ... show more

Dutch: bruutheid, geweld, gewelddadigheid

One possessing or exercising power or influence or authority:
— May the force be with you.
— The forces of evil.

synonym: power.

Roget 574: vigor, power, force; boldness, raciness etc. adj.; intellectual, force; spirit, point, antithesis, piquance, piquancy; verve, glow, fire, warmth; strong language; gravity, sententiousness; elevation, loftiness, sublimity.    eloquence; command of words, command of language.    ... show more

Roget 171: energy, physical energy, force, power etc. 157; keenness etc. adj.; intensity, vigor, strength, elasticity; go; high pressure; fire; rush.    acrimony, acritude^†; causiticity^†, virulence; poignancy; harshness etc. adj.; severity, edge, point; pungency etc. 392.    cantharides; seasoning etc. (condiment) 393.    activity, agitation, effervescence; ferment, fermentation; ebullition, splutter, perturbation, stir, bustle; voluntary energy etc. 682; quicksilver.    resolution etc. (mental energy) 604; exertion etc. (effort) 686; excitation etc. (mental) 824.    ... show more

Dutch: kracht

A group of people having the power of effective action.

Polish: siła

of a law Having legal validity.

synonym: effect.

Dutch: geweld, kracht, truc, macht, ingang

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: force-out, force out, force play.

To cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means:
— She forced him to take a job in the city.

synonyms: coerce, hale, pressure, squeeze.

Roget 544: be false etc. adj., be a liar etc. 548; speak falsely etc. adv.; tell a lie etc. 546; lie, fib; lie like a trooper; swear false, forswear, perjure oneself, bear false witness.    misstate, misquote, miscite^†, misreport, misrepresent; belie, falsify, pervert, distort; put a false construction upon etc. (misinterpret); prevaricate, equivocate, quibble; palter, palter to the understanding; repondre en Normand [Fr.]; trim, shuffle, fence, mince the truth, beat about the bush, blow hot and cold, play fast and loose.    garble, gloss over, disguise, give a color to; give a gloss, put a gloss, put false coloring upon; color, varnish, cook, dress up, embroider; varnish right and puzzle wrong; exaggerate etc. 549; blague^†.    invent, fabricate; trump up, get up; force, fake, hatch, concoct; romance etc. (imagine) 515; cry 'wolf!'.    dissemble, dissimulate; feign, assume, put on, pretend, make believe; play possum; play false, play a double game; coquet; act a part, play a part; affect etc. 855; simulate, pass off for; counterfeit, sham, make a show of; malinger; say the grapes are sour.    cant, play the hypocrite, sham Abraham, faire pattes de velours, put on the mask, clean the outside of the platter, lie like a conjuror; hand out false colors, hold out false colors, sail under false colors; commend the poisoned chalice to the lips" [Macbeth]; ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces [Lat.]; deceive etc. 545.    ... show more

Roget 744: compel, force, make, drive, coerce, constrain, enforce, necessitate, oblige.    force upon, press; cram down the throat, thrust down the throat, force down the throat; say it must be done, make a point of, insist upon, take no denial; put down, dragoon.    extort, wring from; squeeze, put on the squeeze; put on the screws, turn on the screw; drag into; bind, bind over; pin down, tie down; require, tax, put in force; commandeer; restrain etc. 751.    ... show more

Roget 707: aid, assist, help, succor, lend one's aid; come to the aid etc. n.. of; contribute, subscribe to; bring aid, give aid, furnish aid, afford aid, supply aid etc. n.; give a helping hand, stretch a hand, lend a helping hand, lend a hand, bear a helping hand, hold out a hand, hold out a helping hand; give one a life, give one a cast, give one a turn; take by the hand, take in tow; help a lame dog over a stile, lend wings to.    relieve, rescue; set up, set agoing^†, set on one's legs; bear through, pull through; give new life to, be the making of; reinforce, reenforce, recruit; set forward, put forward, push forward; give a lift, give a shove, give an impulse to; promote, further, forward, advance expedite, speed, quicken, hasten.    support, sustain, uphold, prop, hold up, bolster.    cradle, nourish; nurture, nurse, dry nurse, suckle, put out to nurse; manure, cultivate, force; foster, cherish, foment; feed the flame, fan the flame.    serve; do service to, tender to, pander to; administer to, subminister to^†, minister to; tend, attend, wait on; take care of etc. 459; entertain; smooth the bed of death.    oblige, accommodate, consult the wishes of; humor, cheer, encourage.    second, stand by; back, back up; pay the piper, abet; work for, make interest for, stick up for, take up the cudgels for; take up the cause of, espouse the cause of, adopt the cause of; advocate, beat up for recruits, press into the service; squire, give moral support to, keep in countenance, countenance, patronize; lend oneself to, lend one's countenance to; smile upon, shine upon; favor, befriend, take in hand, enlist under the banners of; side with etc. (cooperate) 709.    be of use to; subserve etc. (instrument) 631; benefit etc. 648; render a service etc. (utility) 644; conduce etc. (tend) 176.    ... show more

Dutch: dwingen, forceren, knijpen

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

synonym: impel.

Roget 615: induce, move; draw, draw on; bring in its train, give an impulse etc. n.; to; inspire; put up to, prompt, call up; attract, beckon.    stimulate etc. (excite) 824; spirit up, inspirit; rouse, arouse; animate, incite, foment, provoke, instigate, set on, actuate; act upon, work upon, operate upon; encourage; pat on the back, pat on the shoulder, clap on the back, clap on the shoulder.    influence, weigh with, bias, sway, incline, dispose, predispose, turn the scale, inoculate; lead by the nose; have influence with, have influence over, have influence upon, exercise influence with, exercise influence over, exercise influence upon; go round, come round one; turn the head, magnetize; lobby.    persuade; prevail with, prevail upon; overcome, carry; bring round to one's senses, bring to one's senses; draw over, win over, gain over, come over, talk over; procure, enlist, engage; invite, court.    tempt, seduce, overpersuade^†, entice, allure, captivate, fascinate, bewitch, carry away, charm, conciliate, wheedle, coax, lure; inveigle; tantalize; cajole etc. (deceive) 545.    tamper with, bribe, suborn, grease the palm, bait with a silver hook, gild the pill, make things pleasant, put a sop into the pan, throw a sop to, bait the hook.    enforce, force; impel etc. (push) 276; propel etc. 284; whip, lash, goad, spur, prick, urge; egg on, hound, hurry on; drag etc. 285; exhort; advise etc. 695; call upon &c.; press etc. (request) 765; advocate.    set an example, set the fashion; keep in countenance.    be persuaded &c.; yield to temptation, come round; concede etc. (consent) 762; obey a call; follow advice, follow the bent, follow the dictates of; act on principle.    ... show more

Dutch: voortdrijven, aanzetten

Move with force.

synonym: push.

Dutch: stoot, duw, druk, douwen, duwen

Impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably:
— She forced her diet fads on him.

synonym: thrust.

Dutch: opdringen

Squeeze like a wedge into a tight space.

synonyms: squeeze, wedge.

Force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically.

synonyms: drive, ram.

Do forcibly; exert force.

Take by force.

synonym: storm.

Dutch: forceren, kraken, openbreken