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farce

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Synonyms: force, face, fare, faroe, farre, farve, farme, fawce, farcy, farc, farse

Antonyms: force, face, fare, faroe, farre, farve, farme, fawce, farcy, farc, farse

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Noun

  1. A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method.
  2. A motion picture or play featuring this style of humor.
    • The farce that we saw last night had us laughing and shaking our heads at the same time.
  3. A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents.
    • The first month of labor negotiations was a farce.
  4. A ridiculous or empty show.
  5. An elaborate lie.
  6. Forcemeat, stuffing.

Verb

  1. To stuff with forcemeat or other food items.
  2. To fill full; to stuff.
  3. To make fat.
  4. To swell out; to render pompous.
  5. Alternative form of farse (“to insert vernacular paraphrases into (a Latin liturgy)”).

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