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efforcing

efforcing is the present participle and gerund 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 efforcing

What is efforcing the present participle and gerund of?
Efforcing is the present participle and gerund of efforce.

Words near efforcing in the dictionary

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

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