DEFORCE

  

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DEFORCE

Definitions: DEFORCE

DEFORCE

Verb

1. To resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force, as an officer in the execution of his duty.

2. To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Deforce \De*force"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Deforced; present participle verb or noun Deforcing.]. (Websters 1913)



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Crosswords: DEFORCE

English words defined with "DEFORCE": Deforced, Deforcing. (references)
Etymologies containing "DEFORCE": Deforciant, Deforser. (references)

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Modern Translations: DEFORCE

Language Translations for "DEFORCE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Romanian

  

pune stãpânire pe proprietatea cuiva, lua cu forţa (plunder), lua în stãpânire o proprietate a cuiva. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

alıkoymak (check, constrain, delay, detain, disable, hinder, hold, hold up, incapacitate, intercept, keep, keep from, keep in, preclude, restrain, retain, retard, stay, stick, stop, withhold). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: DEFORCE

Derivations

Words beginning with "DEFORCE": deforced, deforcement, deforcements, deforces. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: DEFORCE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-f-o-r"

-1 letter: forced, recode.

-2 letters: ceder, cered, coder, cored, credo, creed, decor, defer, erode, force, freed, refed.

-3 letters: cede, cere, cero, code, coed, cord, core, corf, deco, deer, dere, doer, dore, dree, feed, feod, fere, ford, fore, free, froe, rede, redo, reed, reef, rode.

-4 letters: cee, cod, cor, dee, doc, doe, dor, ere, fed, fee, fer, foe, for, fro, ode, orc, ore, rec, red, ree, ref, roc, rod, roe.

-5 letters: de, do, ed, ef, er, od, oe, of, or, re.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-f-o-r"
 

+1 letter: coffered, defector, deforced, deforces, enforced, foredeck, frescoed.

 

+2 letters: conferred, defectors, deflector, defrocked, foredecks, officered, refocused.

 

+3 letters: centerfold, cofeatured, coinferred, confederal, deflectors, fluoresced, forecaddie, forecasted, foreclosed, forelocked, prefocused, recodified, recodifies, reenforced, refocussed, reinforced, unenforced.

 

+4 letters: centerfolds, confederacy, confederate, deforcement, effloresced, forecaddies, forechecked, forereached, overfocused, prefocussed, reconfirmed, vociferated.

 

+5 letters: confederated, confederates, counterfired, deforcements, ferrocyanide, henceforward, noncertified, officeholder, overfocussed, reconfigured, unreinforced.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DEFORCE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 45 46 4F 52 43 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    .    ..-.    ---    .-.    -.-.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01000101 01000110 01001111 01010010 01000011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#69 &#70 &#79 &#82 &#67 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0045 0046 004F 0052 0043 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

38394049523739

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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