forced
Americanadjective
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enforced or compulsory.
forced labor.
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strained, unnatural, or affected.
a forced smile.
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subjected to force.
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required by circumstances; emergency.
a forced landing of an airplane.
adjective
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done because of force; compulsory
forced labour
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false or unnatural
a forced smile
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due to an emergency or necessity
a forced landing
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physics caused by an external agency
a forced vibration
a forced draught
Other Word Forms
- forcedly adverb
- forcedness noun
- quasi-forced adjective
- unforced adjective
- unforcedly adverb
Etymology
Origin of forced
Example Sentences
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It’s unclear if any of the current leaders would possess the gravitas of Oseguera, who wielded unquestioned authority even as his health deteriorated and he was forced to live on the run.
From Los Angeles Times
Free American women allowed themselves to say this to me, an Iranian who spent three years under forced hijab, in an Islamic Republic school.
Soon “the spaceship is forced to land on a distant planet, and Rodolfo’s hallucinations grow increasingly intense until he finally succumbs to oxygen deprivation.”
“I’d rather get there honestly and on our own terms than be forced into it reactively,” he wrote.
According to their lawyers, from Leigh Day, they were denied toilet breaks and forced to work "upwards of 12 hours at a time without relieving themselves".
From BBC
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