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efforces

efforces is the third-person singular simple present indicative of efforce.

Meaning of efforce

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

Questions about efforces

What is efforces the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Efforces is the third-person singular simple present indicative of efforce.

Words near efforces in the dictionary

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

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