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BY MAIN FORCE

Definition: BY MAIN FORCE

BY MAIN FORCE

1. By mere force or sheer force; by violent effort; as, to subdue insurrection by main force. That Maine which by main force Warwick did win. --Shak.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Synonyms within Context: BY MAIN FORCE

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Strength	Adverb: strongly; Adjective: by force; Noun: by main force; (by compulsion).
Violence	Adverb: violently; Adjective: amain; by storm, by force, by main force; with might and main; tooth and nail, vi et armis, at the point of the sword, at the point of the bayonet; at one fell swoop; with a high hand, through thick and thin; in desperation, with a vengeance; a outrance, a toute outrance; headlong, head foremost.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Modern Translation: BY MAIN FORCE

Language		Translations for "BY MAIN FORCE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Japanese Kanji		強引に (forcibly). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		�"うい�"に (forcibly). (various references)

Pig Latin		ybay ainmay orcefay

Romanian		cu toatã puterea (amain). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: BY MAIN FORCE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-f-i-m-n-o-r-y"
	-2 letters: embryonic.
	-3 letters: acrimony, baryonic, boniface, combiner, feminacy.
	-4 letters: aciform, acronym, aerobic, amoebic, anymore, bicorne, bonfire, bromine, carbine, carmine, carnify, coinfer, combine, comfier, comfrey, confirm, conifer, corbina, coremia, embryon, encomia, fancier, fermion, fibroma, fireman, foamier, foramen, forebay, foreman, incomer, microbe, minorca, moraine, romaine, romance.
	-5 letters: aeonic, aerify, airmen, ambery, amebic, anemic, anomic, anomie, barmen, barmie.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography

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