1.
[syn: bad, forged]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Forge \Forge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Forged; p. pr. & vb. n.
Forging.] [F. forger, OF. forgier, fr. L. fabricare,
fabricari, to form, frame, fashion, from fabrica. See
Forge, n., and cf. Fabricate.]
1. To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any
particular shape, as a metal.
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Mars's armor forged for proof eterne. --Shak.
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2. To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to
invent.
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Those names that the schools forged, and put into
the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance
into common use. --Locke.
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Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves.
--Tennyson.
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3. To coin. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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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.
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That paltry story is untrue,
And forged to cheat such gulls as you. --Hudibras.
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Forged certificates of his . . . moral character.
--Macaulay.
Syn: To fabricate; counterfeit; feign; falsify.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
forged \forged\ (f[=o]rjd), adj.
1. Not genuine; counterfeit; -- used mostly of signatures and
documents. See forge, v. t., 4.
Syn: bad.
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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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
forged
adj 1: reproduced fraudulently; "like a bad penny..."; "a forged
twenty dollar bill" [syn: bad, forged]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
73 Moby Thesaurus words for "forged":
assembled, built, cast, concocted, constructed, cooked-up,
counterfeit, crafted, created, custom, custom-built, custom-made,
ersatz, extracted, fabricated, fabulous, fake, fancied, fantasied,
fantastic, fashioned, fictional, fictitious, figmental, formed,
gathered, grown, handcrafted, handmade, harvested, hatched, hokey,
homemade, homespun, imitation, invented, legendary, machine-made,
machined, made, made to order, made-up, man-made, manufactured,
milled, mined, mock, molded, mythical, phony, plagiarized, prefab,
prefabricated, processed, pseudo, put together, put-up, quasi,
raised, ready-for-wear, ready-formed, ready-made, ready-prepared,
ready-to-wear, refined, sham, shaped, smelted, synthetic,
trumped-up, well-built, well-constructed, well-made