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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Herculean, Latinate, affected, arduous, artificial, at odds, automatic, averse, awkward, backbreaking, blind, bombastic, burdensome, calculated, coerced, compelled, compulsive, conditioned, constrained, contrived, cramped, crushing, cumbrous, cursory, differing, disagreeing, disinclined, disobedient, distant, effortful, elephantine, exhausting, factitious, faked, false, farfetched, fatiguing, feigned, formal, fractious, grueling, guinde, halting, hard-earned, hard-fought, heavy, hefty, improbable, impulsive, indisposed, indocile, inflexible, inkhorn, instinctive, involuntary, killing, labored, laborious, leaden, lumbering, mannered, mechanical, mutinous, onerous, operose, opposed, oppressive, out-of-the-way, painful, perfunctory, pompous, ponderous, punishing, quite another thing, recalcitrant, reflex, reflexive, refractory, remote, resistant, rigid, self-conscious, sesquipedalian, something else again, stiff, stilted, strained, strenuous, studied, sulky, sullen, toilsome, tough, troublesome, turgid, unconscious, unconsenting, unintentional, unnatural, unthinking, unwieldy, unwilled, unwilling, unwitting, uphill, wearisome, wooden
Dictionary Results for forced:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
forced
    adj 1: produced by or subjected to forcing; "forced-air
           heating"; "furnaces of the forced-convection type";
           "forced convection in plasma generators"
    2: forced or compelled; "promised to abolish forced labor"
    3: made necessary by an unexpected situation or emergency; "a
       forced landing"
    4: lacking spontaneity; not natural; "a constrained smile";
       "forced heartiness"; "a strained smile" [syn: constrained,
       forced, strained]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Force \Force\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Forced; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Forcing.] [OF. forcier, F. forcer, fr. LL. forciare,
   fortiare. See Force, n.]
   1. To constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a
      power not resistible; to compel by physical, moral, or
      intellectual means; to coerce; as, masters force slaves to
      labor.
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   2. To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force
      conviction on the mind.
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   3. To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence
      to one's will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to
      commit rape upon.
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            To force their monarch and insult the court.
                                                  --Dryden.
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            I should have forced thee soon wish other arms.
                                                  --Milton.
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            To force a spotless virgin's chastity. --Shak.
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   4. To obtain, overcome, or win by strength; to take by
      violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault;
      to storm, as a fortress; as, to force the castle; to force
      a lock.
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   5. To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main
      strength or violence; -- with a following adverb, as
      along, away, from, into, through, out, etc.
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            It stuck so fast, so deeply buried lay
            That scarce the victor forced the steel away.
                                                  --Dryden.
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            To force the tyrant from his seat by war. --Sahk.
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            Ethelbert ordered that none should be forced into
            religion.                             --Fuller.
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   6. To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding;
      to enforce. [Obs.]
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            What can the church force more?       --J. Webster.
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   7. To exert to the utmost; to urge; hence, to strain; to urge
      to excessive, unnatural, or untimely action; to produce by
      unnatural effort; as, to force a conceit or metaphor; to
      force a laugh; to force fruits.
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            High on a mounting wave my head I bore,
            Forcing my strength, and gathering to the shore.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   8. (Whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a
      trick by leading a suit of which he has none.
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   9. To provide with forces; to re["e]nforce; to strengthen by
      soldiers; to man; to garrison. [Obs.] --Shak.
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   10. To allow the force of; to value; to care for. [Obs.]
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             For me, I force not argument a straw. --Shak.

   Syn: To compel; constrain; oblige; necessitate; coerce;
        drive; press; impel.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Forced \Forced\, a.
   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.
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   Forced draught. See under Draught.

   Forced march (Mil.), a march of one or more days made with
      all possible speed. -- For"ced*ly, adv. --
      For"ced*ness, n.
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