forged

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔːd͡ʒd/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /fɔːɹdʒd/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dʒd

Adjective

forged (not comparable)

1. Fake (as documents); falsified.

   Forged identification documents were used to enter the building.

   • 2013 January, Brian Hayes, “Father of Fractals”, in American Scientist‎^[1], 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.

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

Related terms

• drop-forged

Translations

fake (as documents)

• Azerbaijani: saxta (az), geydirmə
• Bashkir: ялған (yalğan)
• French: falsifié (fr)
• German: gefälscht (de)
• Manx: foalsey
• Persian: ساختگی (fa) (sâxtegi)
• Polish: podrobiony (pl) m, fałszywy (pl) m
• Portuguese: forjado (pt) 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
• Portuguese: forjado (pt) m
• Romanian: făurit
• Russian: кованый (ru) m (kovanyj)
• Spanish: forjado (es)
• Turkish: dövülü

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