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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Forge \Forge\, verb (used with an object) [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}, noun, and cf. {Fabricate}.]
1. To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal.
Mars's armor forged for proof eterne. --Shak.
2. To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent.
Those names that the schools forged, and put into the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance into common use. --Locke.
Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves. --Tennyson.
3. To coin. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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.
That paltry story is untrue, And forged to cheat such gulls as you. --Hudibras.
Forged certificates of his . . . moral character. --Macaulay.
Syn: To fabricate; counterfeit; feign; falsify.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
forged \forged\ (f[=o]rjd), adjective
1. Not genuine; counterfeit; -- used mostly of signatures and documents. See {forge}, verb (used with an object), 4.
Syn: bad. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
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. [PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
forged
adjective: reproduced fraudulently; "like a bad penny..."; "a forged twenty dollar bill" [syn: {bad}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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