force

a unit that is part of some military service

• “he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men”

one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority

• “the mysterious presence of an evil power”
• “may the force be with you”
• “the forces of evil”

(physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity

• “force equals mass times acceleration”

group of people willing to obey orders

• “a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens”

a powerful effect or influence

• “the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them”

an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)

• “he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one”

physical energy or intensity

• “he hit with all the force he could muster”
• “it was destroyed by the strength of the gale”
• “a government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man”

a group of people having the power of effective action

• “he joined forces with a band of adventurers”

(of a law) having legal validity

• “the law is still in effect”

to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"

• “He squeezed her for information”

urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate

move with force, "He pushed the table into a corner"

impose or thrust urgently, importunately, or inexorably

• “She forced her diet fads on him”

squeeze like a wedge into a tight space

• “I squeezed myself into the corner”

force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically

• “She rammed her mind into focus”
• “He drives me mad”

do forcibly; exert force

• “Don”

cause to move along the ground by pulling

• “draw a wagon”
• “pull a sled”

take by force

• “Storm the fort”