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deforcing

deforcing is the present participle and gerund 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 deforcing

What is deforcing the present participle and gerund of?
Deforcing is the present participle and gerund of deforce.

Words near deforcing in the dictionary

  1. deforcer
  2. deforcers
  3. deforces
  4. deforciant
  5. deforciants
  6. deforcing
  7. Defore
  8. Defores
  9. deforest
  10. deforestation
  11. deforestations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deforcing (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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