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▸ noun: Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
▸ noun: (countable) Anything that is able to make a substantial change in a person or thing.
▸ noun: (countable, physics) A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body and which has a direction and is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance/time² (ML/T²): SI: newton (N); CGS: dyne (dyn)
▸ noun: Something or anything that has the power to produce a physical effect upon something else, such as causing it to move or change shape.
▸ noun: (countable) A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain.
▸ noun: (uncountable) The ability to attack, control, or constrain.
▸ noun: (countable) A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving the apparent free choice of a card by another person.
▸ noun: (law) Legal validity.
▸ noun: (law) Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.
▸ noun: (linguistics, semantics, pragmatics) Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, ...) to effect a given meaning.
▸ noun: (humorous or science fiction, with the, often capitalized) A metaphysical and ubiquitous power from the fictional Star Wars universe created by George Lucas. See usage note.
▸ noun: (usually with "the", in the singular or plural) Synonym of police force
▸ verb: (transitive) To violate (a woman); to rape.
▸ verb: (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To exert oneself, to do one's utmost.
▸ verb: (transitive) To make someone or something do something, often regardless of their will.
▸ verb: (transitive) To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.
▸ verb: (transitive) To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).
▸ verb: (transitive) To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.
▸ verb: (transitive) To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).
▸ verb: To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
▸ verb: (transitive, baseball) To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return to while in possession of a ball which has already touched the ground.
▸ verb: (whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.
▸ verb: (archaic) To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
▸ verb: (archaic) To provide with forces; to reinforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
▸ verb: (obsolete) To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
▸ verb: To grow (rhubarb) in the dark, causing it to grow early.
▸ noun: (countable, Northern England) A waterfall or cascade.
▸ verb: To stuff; to lard; to farce.
▸ noun: (Northern England) Falls. used in place names.
▸ noun: A surname.
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