forged

forged

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔːdʒd/

Adjective

forged (not comparable)

1. Fake (as documents); falsified.
   • 2013 January 1, Brian Hayes, “Father of Fractals”, in American Scientist‎, volume 101, number 1, page 62:

     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.

   Forged identification documents were used to enter the building.

2. 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.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:fake

Translations

fake (as documents)

Bashkir: ялған (yalğan) French: falsifié (fr) German: gefälscht (de) Manx: foalsey Persian: ساختگی‎ (fa) (sâxtegi)

Polish: podrobiony m, fałszywy (pl) m Russian: поддельный (ru) m (poddelʹnyj) Spanish: falsificado (es) Turkish: sahte (tr)

fabricated by forging

German: Schmiede- (de), geschmiedet (de) Manx: obbrit Polish: kuty m

Russian: кованый (ru) m (kovanyj) Spanish: forjado (es)

Verb

forged

1. past participle of forge. To force forward against opposition.

   He forged forward against the current, even as it tried to sweep him down river.

Anagrams

• defrog