efforce

See also: efforcé

English

Etymology

From Middle French efforcer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈfɔː(ɹ)s/

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.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     huge great yron chests and coffers strong, / All bard with double bends, that none could weene / Them to efforce by violence or wrong […]

French

Verb

efforce

1. inflection of efforcer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative