Forced and Pressed

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Forced adjective - Forcing one's compliance or participation by or as if by law.

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Pressed and forced are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pressed" instead the word "Forced" as an adjective or a verb.

Nearby Words: force, forceful, forcible, forcefully, forcibly

Pressed adjective - Compacted by ironing.

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Forced and pressed are semantically related. You can use "Forced" instead the word "Pressed" as an adjective or a verb.

Nearby Words: press, pressure, pressing

The District Attorney and CPD would already be hard-pressed to explain why an innocent man was convicted of capital murder and was essentially forced to find the real shooter himself.

Source: Film / The Fugitive
Apparently, several hundred years prior Barragan's forces pressed him hard enough that Gaara (who'd become an arrancar) was forced to use his Resureccion, which turned all of Hueco Mundo into the desert it is today.

Source: Person of Mass Destruction
A He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2002) comic depicted the old toyline character Scare-Glow as having I Know What You Fear powers, and after being pressed into Skeletor's employ he forced He-Man, Teela, and Man-at-Arms to confront their greatest fears.

Source: "What Do They Fear?" Episode

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