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Forcible means done with physical force, often against someone’s will. Forcible entry is breaking into a place. Forcible removal is dragging a person out. It is a formal word, common in news and law. Though actually, students often mix it with . can describe a strong voice or a strong argument. Forcible is about bodies, doors, and pushing — real physical force, not just a strong manner.
強制的；用武力做成的（新聞和法律裡很常見）
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
forcibleadj
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Done by force, forced.
- I fled; but he pursued (though more, it seems, / Inflamed with lust than rage), and, swifter far, / Me overtook, his mother, all dismayed, / And, in embraces forcible and foul / Engendering with me, of that rape begot / These yelling monsters, that with ceaseless cry / Surround me, as thou saw'st—
- The forcible administration of poison is by no means a new thing in criminal annals.
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obsoleterareHaving (physical) force, forceful.
- […] he drew her to him, laid a forcible detaining arm about her waist, and misapprehended her frantic revolt for an exhibition of maidenly reluctance.
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Having a powerful effect; forceful, telling, strong, convincing, effective.
- But that which hath been once most sufficient, may wax otherwise by alteration of time and place; that punishment which hath been sometimes forcible to bridle sin, may grow afterwards too weak and feebled.
- Thou hast frighted the word out of his right sense, so forcible is thy wit.
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Able to be forced.
- […] it seems that an entry is not forcible by the bare drawing up a latch, or pulling back the bolt of a door, there being no appearance therein of its being done by strong hand, or multitude of people; […]
- But an entry may be forcible, not only in respect of a violence actually done to the person of a man, but also in respect of any other kind of violence in the manner of the entry, as by breaking open the doors of a house […]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。