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deforced

deforced is the simple past and past participle of deforce.

Meaning of deforce

Verb

deforce (third-person singular simple present deforces, present participle deforcing, simple past and past participle deforced)

  1. (transitive) To withhold land unlawfully from its true owner or from any other person who has a right to the possession of it, after one has lawfully entered and taken possession of it.
  2. (Scotland) To resist an officer of the law in the execution of his duty.

Questions about deforced

What is deforced the simple past and past participle of?
Deforced is the simple past and past participle of deforce.

Words near deforced in the dictionary

  1. defolliculated
  2. defolliculates
  3. defolliculating
  4. defolliculation
  5. deforce
  6. deforced
  7. deforcement
  8. deforcements
  9. deforceor
  10. deforceors
  11. deforcer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deforced (page history and authors); deforce (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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