Forced
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English
Verb
forced
- Simple past tense and past participle of force.
Adjective
Forced (comparative more Forced, superlative most Forced)
- obtained forcefully, not naturally
- Her forced smile was harder and harder to keep as her critical father kept on complaining about her.
- opened or accessed using force
Derived terms
Thesaurus
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