forged
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Adjective
forged (not comparable)
- Fake (as documents); falsified.
- Forged identification documents were used to enter the building.
- 2013 January, 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.
- 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
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fake (as documents)
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Verb
forged
- past participle of forge. To force forward against opposition.
- He forged forward against the current, even as it tried to sweep him down river.
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