Synonyms of force
25 similar words
Another word for force is pressure. Other synonyms of force are influence, factor, police force, effect and thrust.
Synonyms and similar words for force
nounSomething that exerts influence.
nounSynonym of police force.
- police forceAny police organization; a constabulary.
nounThe state of having legal weight, of being legally valid,.
verbTo make someone or something do something, often regardless of their will.
- thrustTo force something upon someone.
verbTo violate (a woman); to rape.
- abuseTo violate; defile; to rape; (reflexive) to masturbate.
- defileTo deprive (someone) of their sexual chastity or purity, often not consensually; to deflower, to rape.
- outrageTo sexually violate; to rape.
- dishonourTo violate or rape.
- misuseTo rape (a woman); later more generally, to sexually abuse (someone).
- polluteTo violate sexually; to debauch; to dishonour.
- rapeTo force sexual intercourse or other sexual activity upon (someone) without their consent.
- ravage slangTo rape.
- r-word euphemisticTo rape.
- scotch slangTo rape.
- turn out slangTo rape; to coerce an otherwise heterosexual individual into performing a homosexual role.
- violateTo rape.
- grape euphemistic
- constuprate obsoleteTo rape, violate.
- defoul obsoleteTo defile the chastity of; to debauch, to rape.
- oppress obsoleteTo sexually violate; to rape.
- ravish datedTo rape.
- viole obsoleteTo violate, especially to rape.
- vitiate archaicTo violate, to rape.
Meaning of force
- noun Ability to influence; strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.
- noun The generalized abstraction of this concept.
- noun A particular form or type of force.
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Questions about synonyms of force
- What is another word for force?
- Force has 25 synonyms on Word.ws, such as pressure, influence, factor, police force, effect, thrust, abuse and defile.
- What does force mean?
- Force means ability to influence; strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: force (page history and authors) and the entries of the words listed. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws grouped the synonyms and antonyms by meaning and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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