| artificial |
not true or sincere; contrived; forced. [1/3 definitions] |
| bite the bullet |
to endure the pain or difficulty of voluntarily forced effort, or the unpleasantness of a situation forced upon one. |
| blackmail |
payment forced by threats to reveal damaging information; extortion. [1/3 definitions] |
| blast furnace |
a large, vertical furnace in which metal, esp. iron, is smelted from ore by means of heat intensified by a blast of air forced in at the bottom. |
| blow2 |
of an instrument or the like, to emit a sound when air is forced through. [1/14 definitions] |
| blowpipe |
a metal tube through which air or gas is forced in a controlled flow into a flame to concentrate and intensify its heat. [1/3 definitions] |
| catachresis |
a forced figure of speech such as a bad metaphor. [1/2 definitions] |
| centripetal |
forced or moving inward toward a center point or axis. [1/2 definitions] |
| constrained |
forced; compelled. [1/2 definitions] |
| cutesy |
(informal) straining to be attractive, clever, or the like; affected, forced, or in questionable taste. |
| displaced person |
a person who has become homeless, usu. as a result of having been forced from his or her homeland by war. |
| DP |
abbreviation of "displaced person," a person who has become homeless, usu. as a result of having been forced from his or her homeland by war. |
| duress |
forced constraint; imprisonment. [1/2 definitions] |
| ethnic cleansing |
the mass murder, incarceration, or forced emigration of members of an ethnic minority within a particular nation in order to establish an ethnically homogeneous population. |
| force-out |
a baseball play in which a runner in forced out at the next base following the hitting of a fair ball by a teammate. |
| Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu |
an American of Japanese descent who, during World War II, was one of only a few Japanese-Americans to openly defy the relocation orders of the U.S. Government. Korematsu was arrested and sent to an internment center in 1942, and his challenge to the constitutionality of forced relocation was ruled against by the Supreme Court in 1944 in Korematsu v. United States (b.1919--d.2005). |
| galley slave |
a slave or convict forced to work at an oar on a galley. [1/2 definitions] |
| gantlet1 |
variant of "gauntlet2," a form of punishment or humiliation, used esp. in former times by the military, in which two rows of people beat someone who is forced to run between them. [1/3 definitions] |
| gauntlet2 |
a form of punishment or humiliation, used esp. in former times by the military, in which two rows of people beat someone who is forced to run between them. [1/3 definitions] |
| gavage |
forced feeding using a tube to introduce food into the stomach. |
| get |
to be forced to succumb to or take; catch. [1/17 definitions] |