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efforce

/ɪˈfɔː(ɹ)s/

efforce verb: to force oneself.

Verb

efforce (third-person singular simple present efforces, present participle efforcing, simple past and past participle efforced)

  1. (obsolete, reflexive) To force oneself.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To force, force open; to acquire by force.
    • huge great yron chests and coffers strong, / All bard with double bends, that none could weene / Them to efforce by violence or wrong […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

efforce meaning in Bengali

efforce in Bengali

নিজেকে বাধ্য করা, বাধ্য করা, বলপ্রয়োগে খোলা, বলপ্রয়োগে অর্জন করা

Forms of efforce

third-person singular presentefforces
present participleefforcing
past participleefforced
pastefforced

Origin of efforce

From Middle French efforcer.

Words that rhyme with efforce

18 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about efforce

What does efforce mean?
Efforce means to force oneself.
What is efforce in Bengali?
Efforce in Bengali is নিজেকে বাধ্য করা, বাধ্য করা, বলপ্রয়োগে খোলা. See Efforce meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is efforce?
Efforce is a verb.
How do you pronounce efforce?
Efforce is pronounced /ɪˈfɔː(ɹ)s/.
What is the past tense of efforce?
The past tense of efforce is efforced.

Words near efforce in the dictionary

  1. effodicated
  2. effodicates
  3. effodicating
  4. effodient
  5. effoliation
  6. efforce
  7. efforced
  8. efforces
  9. efforcing
  10. efform
  11. efformation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: efforce (page history and authors); efforce (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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