forged
adjectiveverbcommon in dialogue
- Canada//fɔːɹdʒd//
- //fɔːd͡ʒd//
Fake (as documents); falsified.
adjective
- 1
Fake (as documents); falsified.
Forged identification documents were used to enter the building.
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.
verb
- 1
Also a form of forgepast participle of forge. To force forward against opposition.
He forged forward against the current, even as it tried to sweep him down river.