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Definition: EFFORCING

Part of Speech Definition
Verb 1. Seldom used present participle conjugation of the verb efforce.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Base
(efforce)
1. To force; to constrain; to compel to yield.[Websters].
2. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: efforcing, efforced, efforces, efforcer, efforcers, efforcingly and efforcedly.[Eve - graph theoretic]

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Date "Efforcing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1877. (references)

Definition: EFFORCING

Part of SpeechDefinition
Verb1. Seldom used present participle conjugation of the verb efforce.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Base
(efforce)
1. To force; to constrain; to compel to yield.[Websters].
2. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: efforcing, efforced, efforces, efforcer, efforcers, efforcingly and efforcedly.[Eve - graph theoretic]

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Date "EFFORCING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1877. (references)

Specialty Definition: efforce

DomainDefinition
Noah Webster1: [Verb] To force; to break through by violence.
 2: [Verb] To force; to ravish.
 3: [Verb] To strain; to exert with effort. [This word is now rarely used; perhaps never, except in poetry. We now use force.]. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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