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Forged   /fɔrdʒd/   Listen
verb
Forge  v. t.  (past & past part. forged; pres. part. forging)  
1.
To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal. "Mars's armor forged for proof eterne."
2.
To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent. "Those names that the schools forged, and put into the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance into common use." "Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves."
3.
To coin. (Obs.)
4.
To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate; to counterfeit, as, a signature, or a signed document. "That paltry story is untrue, And forged to cheat such gulls as you." "Forged certificates of his... moral character."
Synonyms: To fabricate; counterfeit; feign; falsify.


Forge  v. t.  (Naut.) To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.


Forge  v. i.  
1.
To commit forgery.
2.
(Naut.) To move heavily and slowly, as a ship after the sails are furled; to work one's way, as one ship in outsailing another; used especially in the phrase to forge ahead. "And off she (a ship) forged without a shock."


adjective
forged  adj.  
1.
Not genuine; counterfeit; used mostly of signatures and documents. See forge, v. t., 4.
Synonyms: bad.
2.
Shaped by strong pressure in a press, or by heatng and hammering; of metal objects. Note: Also used metaphorically of results requiring intense or difficult effort.





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"Forged" Quotes from Famous Books



... approached the Bucentaur, fired a 68-pounder carronade containing a round-shot and a keg with 500 musket-balls, from the larboard side of her forecastle, right into the cabin-windows of that ship; and as she forged slowly ahead, the whole of her 50 broadside guns, all doubly and some trebly shotted, so as completely to rake her, killing or wounding as many men as the Bucentaur had lost, and dismounting 20 of her guns. Receiving the fire of an 80-gun ship, the Neptune, the ...
— How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves - Updated to 1900 • W.H.G. Kingston
... England, even though it is the chosen land of Compromise, has in the sphere of religion witnessed destructive revolutions and counter-revolutions. What can save the Church in Spain from perishing by that sword of Intolerance which it has itself forged? ...
— Impressions And Comments • Havelock Ellis
... master's wrath, departed for a while, and then sent another lad to tell me he was sorry to hear I felt unwell, but he hoped I would come if only for a minute, bringing my medicines with me, for he himself felt pain. That this second message was a forged one I had no doubt, for the boys had not been long enough gone; still, I packed up my medicines and went, leaving the onus, should any accident happen, ...
— The Discovery of the Source of the Nile • John Hanning Speke
... had been Sir Andrew Arnold's in his warlike years, and now he lent it to his godson Hugh because, as he said, he had nothing else. Also, it may have crossed the minds of both of them that such mail as this which the Saracens had forged, if somewhat out of fashion, could ...
— Red Eve • H. Rider Haggard
... hair showeth very white amid the gold, Beltane, but thou art better man therefore, methinks. The fetters of thy dungeon yet gleam upon thy wrists, Beltane. But truly I do think within thy prison was forged the sword shall avenge our woes and ...
— Beltane The Smith • Jeffery Farnol


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