Dictionary

Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.

Example: the force of an appeal, an argument, or a contract

Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.

Anything that is able to make a substantial change in a person or thing.

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)

To violate (a woman); to rape.

To exert oneself, to do one's utmost.

To compel (someone or something) to do something.

To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.

A waterfall or cascade.

To stuff; to lard; to farce.

Troops (plural only).

The orchestral instrumentation (and voices) used in a musical production (nearly always used in plural form only).

(law enforcement) Any police organization; a constabulary.

Example: He joined the police force a long time ago, when he lived in Virginia.