deforces

verb

present tense third-person singular of deforce
as in evicts

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  1. evicts
  2. dispossesses
  3. strips
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  • Ashley evicts Morgan Ashley evicts Morgan.
    — Christopher Kuhagen, jsonline.com, 28 Sep. 2025
  • In the city of Cluj, located within the country’s Transylvania region, a bailiff named Orsolya (Eszter Tompa) evicts the homeless Ion (Gabriel Spahiu) from the unused cellar of a local house to make way for the construction of the Kontinental boutique hotel.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2025
Definition of evicts
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  • Bournemouth midfielder Alex Scott dispossesses Virgil van Dijk and Semenyo secures the loose ball.
    — Liam Tharme, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2025
Definition of dispossesses
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  • Gash’s weakest moments come in times like these, when the band strips back its sound into solitary parts that fail to gel.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 13 Oct. 2026
  • The new agreement strips that provision, as well as another that required Zambia to share pathogen data for 25 years and health data for 10 years.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of strips
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“Deforces.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deforces. Accessed 17 Oct. 2026.

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