Meanings
verbefforce (third-person singular simple present efforces, present participle efforcing, simple past and past participle efforced)
present singular third person efforces · participle present efforcing · participle past efforced · past efforced
- obsoletereflexiveTo force oneself.
- obsoletetransitiveTo 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
Origin
- Middle Frenchefforcer
- Englishefforce
From Middle French efforcer.
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Rhymes with efforce
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APA
efforce. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/efforce
MLA
“efforce.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/efforce. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “efforce,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/efforce.
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