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Forge   /fɔrdʒ/   Listen
Forge

noun
1.
Furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping.
2.
A workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering.  Synonym: smithy.
verb
(past & past part. forged; pres. part. forging)
1.
Create by hammering.  Synonym: hammer.  "Forge a pair of tongues"
2.
Make a copy of with the intent to deceive.  Synonyms: counterfeit, fake.  "They counterfeited dollar bills" , "She forged a Green Card"
3.
Come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort.  Synonyms: contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate, invent.
4.
Move ahead steadily.
5.
Move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy.  Synonyms: spirt, spurt.
6.
Make something, usually for a specific function.  Synonyms: form, mold, mould, shape, work.  "Form cylinders from the dough" , "Shape a figure" , "Work the metal into a sword"
7.
Make out of components (often in an improvising manner).  Synonym: fashion.



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"Forge" Quotes from Famous Books



... was a defeat for the Americans it by no means spelled disaster. Another two months of frays and skirmishes followed. Then the British settled down to comfortable winter quarters in Philadelphia, and Washington marched his war-worn patriots to Valley Forge, ...
— This Country Of Ours • H. E. Marshall Author: Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
... peculiar fascination for us children. We would stand by his pointing forge when he'd be sharpening picks in the early morning, and watch his face for five minutes at a time, wondering sometimes whether he was always SMILING INSIDE, or whether the smile went on externally irrespective of any variation in Peter's ...
— On the Track • Henry Lawson
... the forge, the fire of which glowed under the force of the bellows, and by degrees, as the warmth reached him, he was restored to self-possession. To the inquiries made as to who he was, and from where he came, he now answered as he had before arranged in his mind. ...
— The Poacher - Joseph Rushbrook • Frederick Marryat
... carried on so openly, Mr. Mohun considered it his duty to withdraw his custom from one who chose to set his pastor at defiance. He went to the forge, and had a long conversation with the blacksmith, but though he was listened to with respect, it was not easy to make much impression on an ignorant, hot-tempered man, who had been greatly offended, and prided himself on showing that he would support ...
— Scenes and Characters • Charlotte M. Yonge
... action)—to strengthen the realization that our soldiers of sea and land, though far away, are fighting for a cause which is vitally near the heart of every man and every woman, and the soul of every nation—human freedom; "to forge the weapon of victory by fanning the flame of cheerfulness," and to be the means of lifting the burden of anxiety from those who go, lest their loved ones should suffer privation, bereft of their protecting care. So truly is this an Age of Service, that the response to the scope ...
— Defenders of Democracy • Militia of Mercy


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