1. forces - Noun
2. forces - Verb
forces
plural of force
(military, only plural) Troops.
(music, chiefly plural) The orchestral instrumentation (and voices) used in a musical production.
forces
third-person singular simple present indicative of force
When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him. Jonathan Swift
All the forces of darkness need to succeed ... is for the people to do nothing. Edmund Burke
The imagination is one of the forces of nature. Wallace Stevens
Dogs that fight each other will join forces against the wolf. Armenian Proverb
If hunger forces a farmer in a particular year to eat both his yam tubers and the seed-yams, the succeeding years would still be worse because he would have no yams to eat and none to plant. Nigerian Proverb
Lack of bread forces one to work. Swedish Proverb