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Forged

[fawrj, fohrj]

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verb (used with object)

to form by heating and hammering; beat into shape.

to form or make, especially by concentrated effort: to forge a friendship through mutual trust.

to imitate (handwriting, a signature, etc.) fraudulently; fabricate a forgery.

verb (used without object)

to commit forgery.

to work at a forge.

(of a horse at a trot) to strike the forefeet with the shoes of the hind feet.

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noun

a special fireplace, hearth, or furnace in which metal is heated before shaping.

the workshop of a blacksmith; smithy.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English forgen < Old French forgier < Latin fabricāre to fabricate; see fabric

Related forms

forge·a·ble, adjective

forg·er, noun

re·forge·a·ble, adjective

un·forge·a·ble, adjective

Synonyms
2. shape, fabricate, manufacture, fashion, mold.

Example Sentences

Davis had forged the name of a college official who authorizes loan applications to the pension fund.

It may be the ability to form bonds with strangers was forged by the demands of war.

Britain is a country that has been forged by centuries of warfare.

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Davis had forged the name of a college official who authorizes loan applications to the pension fund.

It may be the ability to form bonds with strangers was forged by the demands of war.

Britain is a country that has been forged by centuries of warfare.

Two teams report they have forged the first chip-based.

Out of the babel of competing nomenclatures he forged a single, universally applicable scientific language.

The biometric data would make it harder for an individual to use a stolen or forged driver's license for identification.

All community partners will benefit as a shared destiny is forged through volunteerism and community service.

Remember that there will be many highs and many deep friendships forged.

Scientists are tracing the steps through which evolution forged its successes.

Politicians and the media soon forged a link between the disease and depleted uranium use.

Marvel took control of its own movie properties and forged them with affection and loyalty to the source material.

If an instructor better understands a student's cultural perspective, a stronger relationship can be forged.

Such levers do not work as quickly as those that were forged from deals with unpopular and unstable dictators.

He forged international relations that have never been broken.

Scientists have forged a promising avenue in the quest to restore mobility to patients paralyzed by disease or injury.

GM's ride presented a utopia forged by urban planning.

He'd stolen the letterhead and forged the doctor's signature.

Al-Qaeda's ideology was forged by one big victory and two decades of failures.

Finally, several million years after the entire process began, the intense compression forged a full-fledged star-and there was.

We called him for his take on the missile photo and some other images from a tornado video that some say are forged.

The winning design was in reality a mashup forged by many minds.

So many book deals, in fact, that they seem to have forged a new literary genre: the celebrity nerd coming-of-age story.

As shown by the manufactured hat and forged shotgun in the picture, one can hardly call them uncontacted anymore.

It was forged by the bishop so that he would gain control the church.

The syndicate is built on links forged during the cold war.

Ipetí has forged a plan to preserve surrounding forests.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used without object), forged, forg·ing.

to move ahead slowly; progress steadily: to forge through dense underbrush.

to move ahead with increased speed and effectiveness (usually followed by ahead): to forge ahead and finish the work in a burst of energy.

Origin:
1605–15; origin uncertain

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Word Origin & History

forge

1610s, "make way, move ahead," most likely an alteration of force, but perhaps from forge (n.), via notion of steady hammering at something. Originally nautical, in reference to vessels.

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"The only mode of obtaining an answer to these questions of the senses is to forego all low curiosity, and, accepting the tide of being which floats us into the secret of nature, work and live, work and live, and all unawares the advancing soul has built and forged for itself a new condition, and the question and the answer are one."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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