If someone forces you to do something, they make you do it even though you do not want to, for example by threatening you.

If a situation or event forces you to do something, it makes it necessary for you to do something that you would not otherwise have done.

If someone forces something on or upon you, they make you accept or use it when you would prefer not to.

If you force something into a particular position, you use a lot of strength to make it move there.

If someone forces a lock, a door, or a window, they break the lock or fastening in order to get into a building without using a key.

If someone uses force to do something, or if it is done by force, strong and violent physical action is taken in order to achieve it.

Force is the power or strength which something has.

If you refer to someone or something as a force in a particular type of activity, you mean that they have a strong influence on it.

The force of something is the powerful effect or quality that it has.

You can use forces to refer to processes and events that do not appear to be caused by human beings, and are therefore difficult to understand or control.

In physics, a force is the pulling or pushing effect that something has on something else.

Force is used before a number to indicate a wind of a particular speed or strength, especially a very strong wind.

If you force a smile or a laugh, you manage to smile or laugh, but with an effort because you are unhappy.

Forces are groups of soldiers or military vehicles that are organized for a particular purpose.

The forces means the army, the navy, or the air force, or all three.

The force is sometimes used to mean the police force.

If something happens by force of a particular quality, action, or set of circumstances, it happens because of the nature or intensity of that quality, action, or set of circumstances.

If you do something from force of habit, you do it because you have always done it in the past, rather than because you have thought carefully about it.

A law, rule, or system that is in force exists or is being used.

When people do something in force, they do it in large numbers.

If you join forces with someone, you work together in order to achieve a common aim or purpose.

If you force your way through or into somewhere, you have to push or break things that are in your way in order to get there.

If you force back an emotion or desire, you manage, with an effort, not to experience it.