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To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende.
Erich Auerbach

Meaning of "forced" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FORCED

forced  [fɔːst] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FORCED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Forced is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES FORCED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Forced

Forced is a single-player and co-op action role-playing game developed by BetaDwarf Entertainment, released in October 2013 for Windows, OS X and Linux through the Steam platform.

Definition of forced in the English dictionary

The first definition of forced in the dictionary is done because of force; compulsory. Other definition of forced is false or unnatural. Forced is also due to an emergency or necessity.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FORCED


addorsed
əˈdɔːst
enforced
ɪnˈfɔːst
exhaust
ɪɡˈzɔːst
holocaust
ˈhɒləˌkɔːst
horst
hɔːst
hypocaust
ˈhaɪpəˌkɔːst
infaust
ɪnˈfɔːst
inhaust
ɪnˈhɔːst
postholocaust
ˌpəʊstˈhɒləkɔːst
reinforced
ˌriːɪnˈfɔːst
resourced
rɪˈsɔːst
undivorced
ˌʌndɪˈvɔːst
unenforced
ˌʌnɪnˈfɔːst
unforced
ʌnˈfɔːst
unreinforced
ˌʌnˌriːɪnˈfɔːst
unsourced
ʌnˈsɔːst

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FORCED

force majeure
force pump
force someone´s hand
force the issue
force the pace
force-fed
force-feed
force-field analysis
force-ripe
forceable
forced development
forced entry
forced labour
forced landing
forced march
forced perspective
forced savings
forcedly
forcedness
forceful

WORDS THAT END LIKE FORCED

advanced
balanced
convinced
displaced
experienced
fenced
iced
misplaced
overpriced
priced
pronounced
reduced
spaced
spiced
terraced
tierced
unamerced
uncoerced
unpierced
voiced

Synonyms and antonyms of forced in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «FORCED»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «forced» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of forced

Translation of «forced» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FORCED

Find out the translation of forced to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of forced from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «forced» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

受迫的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

forzado
570 millions of speakers

English

forced
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मजबूर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

أجبرت
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

вынуждены
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

forçado
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জোরপূর্বক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

forcé
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dipaksa
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

gezwungen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

強制された
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

강요된
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dipeksa
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

buộc
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கட்டாயம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सक्ती
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

zorunlu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

forzato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zmuszony
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

змушені
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

forțat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αναγκαστική
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

gedwing
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tvingat
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tvang
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of forced

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FORCED»

The term «forced» is very widely used and occupies the 4.629 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FORCED» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «forced» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «forced» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about forced

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10 QUOTES WITH «FORCED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word forced.
1
King Albert II
But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend our threatened homes, this duty, however hard it may be, will find us armed and resolved upon the greatest sacrifices.
2
Stuart Appleby
If a cow walked into this room, I'd probably walk out. I could milk it, but my dad never forced me to do a lot of chores like that, mostly because he loved doing it himself.
3
Erich Auerbach
To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende.
4
Irving Babbitt
A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.
5
Bob Black
Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it's forced.
6
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
7
Iris Chang
The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
8
John Cleveland
Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom nor forced him wander, but confine him home.
9
Kurt Cobain
I have to admit I've found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I'm pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.
10
Tom Daschle
This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FORCED»

Discover the use of forced in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to forced and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Forced Ranking: Making Performance Management Work
This book clears away the confusion surrounding a controversial performance management practice called forced ranking, which evaluates how well employees perform relative to their peers instead of against predetermined performance goals.
Richard C. Grote, 2005
2
Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals And the ...
Dylan Rodriguez examines the work of a number of imprisoned intellectuals, such as Angela Davis and Leonard Peltier, and looks at how imprisonment has shaped their writing.
Dylan Rodr Ưguez, 2006
3
Climate Change, Forced Migration, and International Law
This is a key study into whether 'climate change refugees' are protected by international law.
Jane McAdam, 2012
4
Human Rights and Forced Displacement
By Dr. Francis Deng.
Anne Fruma Bayefsky, Joan Fitzpatrick, 2000
5
Engendering Forced Migration: Theory and Practice
In this volume, eighteen scholars provide a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary look beyond the statistics at the experiences of the women, men, girls, and boys who comprise this global flow, and at the highly gendered forces that frame and ...
Doreen Marie Indra, 1999
6
Forced Baptisms: Histories of Jews, Christians, and Converts ...
This book makes use of newly available archival sources to reexamine the Roman Catholic Churche(tm)s policy, from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, of coercing the Jews of Rome into converting to Christianity.
Marina Caffiero, 2012
7
Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America
The book illuminates the source of contradictions between American beliefs about the value and importance of caring in a good society and the exploitation and devalued status of those who do the caring.
Evelyn Nakano Glenn, 2010
8
The Economics of Forced Labor: The Soviet Gulag
This collection presents the results of years of research by Western and Russian scholars. The authors provide both broad overviews and specific case studies.
Paul R. Gregory, Valery Lazarev, 2003
9
No One Wants You: A true story of a child forced into ...
Given away by her mother at five months old, raped on the day of her first communion at age seven - when Celine Roberts was told 'No one wants you', she believed it.
Celine Roberts, 2008
10
Forced Migration and Global Politics
Redressing this gap, the book systematically applies International Relations (IR) theory to the international politics of forced migration.
Alexander Betts, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FORCED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term forced is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Serbian PM forced to flee Srebrenica massacre memorial | Reuters
Serbian PM forced to flee Srebrenica massacre memorial. POTOCARI, Bosnia | By Daria Sito-Sucic and Maja Zuvela. POTOCARI, Bosnia ... «Reuters, Jul 15»
2
Private Prison Allegedly Forced Immigrant Detainees Into Labor …
Nine current and former immigrant detainees are allowed to file a lawsuit against a private prison contractor that paid them $1 a day for forced ... «ThinkProgress, Jul 15»
3
Family-run gas station in SW Portland forced out after 40 years
A small family-run gas station in Southwest Portland has been forced to close its doors after nearly 40 years in business. The Weber family of ... «kgw.com, Jul 15»
4
Larger companies to be forced to reveal whether they are paying …
Companies with more than 250 staff members will have to reveal within 12 months whether or not they are paying women less than men, the ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
5
CloudFlare Forced to Censor Anti-Censorship Site - TorrentFreak
As a result, the popular CDN service was forced to disconnect "groovesharkcensorship.cf," a site specifically set up to protest overbroad ... «TorrentFreak, Jul 15»
6
Internal Affairs: San Jose council members forced to conduct city …
It must be hard to focus on a stuffy conference call when the white-sand beaches of Mexico are calling your name. Two San Jose City Council ... «San Jose Mercury News, Jul 15»
7
EPD: Officers forced to shoot 2 dogs - Tri-State News, Weather …
Evansville Police say they were forced to shoot two dogs after several people reported they were bitten and attacked. Sgt. Patrick Phernetton ... «14 News WFIE Evansville, Jul 15»
8
EasyJet plane from Newcastle to Spain forced to make landing in …
An easyJet flight carrying British holidaymakers to Spain was forced to make an unscheduled landing over concerns the plane was running ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
9
Mother who forced daughter to fight on video accepts plea - Lockport …
McCray then forced her daughter and the other teen to fight again. After a couple of additional minutes of wrestling and punching by the two ... «Lockport Union-Sun & Journal, Jul 15»
10
Penn School forced to close with parents told just two weeks before …
Education chiefs are being forced to find emergency care for pupils after a special needs private school went into administration (file picture). «Daily Mail, Jul 15»

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