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forged en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /fɔːɹdʒd/ (Canada)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /fɔːd͡ʒd/

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Fake (as documents); falsified.
    • Forged identification documents were used to enter the building.
    • Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid. 2013 January 14, Brian Hayes, “Father of Fractals”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 62:
  2. (not-comparable) Fabricated by forging or at a forge, by working hot metal
    • The blacksmith made an expertly forged horseshoe by beating the red hot metal with his hammer.

Deriveds

unforged · nonforged

Relateds

drop-forged

Translations (22)

fa ساختگی (fake (as documents)) · pt forjado (fake (as documents)) · az saxta (fake (as documents)) · de Schmiede- (fabricated by forging) · de gefälscht (fake (as documents)) · ro făurit (fabricated by forging) · tr sahte (fake (as documents)) · pl fałszywy (fake (as documents)) · gv foalsey (fake (as documents)) · es forjado (fabricated by forging) · pl podrobiony (fake (as documents)) · fr falsifié (fake (as documents)) · pt forjado (fabricated by forging) · gv obbrit (fabricated by forging) · ru поддельный (fake (as documents)) · ru кованый (fabricated by forging) · pl kuty (fabricated by forging) · tr dövülü (fabricated by forging) · es falsificado (fake (as documents)) · ba ялған (fake (as documents)) · az geydirmə (fake (as documents)) · de geschmiedet (fabricated by forging)

forged en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /fɔːɹdʒd/ (Canada)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /fɔːd͡ʒd/

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) past participle of forge. To force forward against opposition.
    form of forge
    • He forged forward against the current, even as it tried to sweep him down river.