How do you force quit an application

my mail is frozen and now so is safari what's going on and how do i force quit the apps

COMMAND-OPTION-ESC will bring up a Task Manager. Select the item and click on the Force Quit button.
CTRL- or RIGHT-click on the application's Dock icon and select Force Quit from the contextual menu.
Open Activity Monitor in your Utilities folder. Locate the application in the list, select it, click on the Quit icon in the toolbar. Then click on the Force Quit button.

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