1. Not voluntary, compelled
   "promised to abolish forced labour"
    
2. Made necessary by an unexpected situation or emergency
   "a forced landing"
    
3. Lacking spontaneity; not natural
   "forced heartiness";
   - constrained, strained
    
4. Produced by or subjected to forcing
   "forced convection in plasma generators"; "forced-air heating"; "furnaces of the forced-convection type"

1. Cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means
   "She forced him to take a job in the city";
   - coerce, hale [archaic], squeeze, pressure
    
2. Urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate
   "Her conscience forced her to confess";
   - impel
    
3. Move with force
   "He forced his way through the crowd";
   - push
    
4. Impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably
   "She forced her diet fads on him";
   - thrust
    
5. Force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
   "They forced him to resign";
   - drive, ram
    
6. Do forcibly; exert force
   "Don't force it!"
    
7. Force to fit into (or through) a tight space
   "I forced myself into the corner";
   - wedge, squeeze, squash, sardine [informal]
    
8. Take by force
   "force the fort";
   - storm

See also: affected, force out, gouge, involuntary, nonvoluntary, repulse, screw, unnatural, unscheduled, unvoluntary [rare]

Type of: act, cause, compel, displace, do, engender, make, move, obligate, oblige, penetrate, pierce, thrust

Antonym: draw

Encyclopedia: Forced