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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
forfeit
adj 1: surrendered as a penalty [syn: confiscate, forfeit,
forfeited]
n 1: something that is lost or surrendered as a penalty; [syn:
forfeit, forfeiture]
2: a penalty for a fault or mistake that involves losing or
giving up something; "the contract specified forfeits if the
work was not completed on time" [syn: forfeit,
forfeiture]
3: the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for
a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc. [syn:
forfeit, forfeiture, sacrifice]
v 1: lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error,
offense, or crime; "you've forfeited your right to name
your successor"; "forfeited property" [syn: forfeit,
give up, throw overboard, waive, forgo, forego]
[ant: arrogate, claim, lay claim]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Forfeit \For"feit\, n. [OE. forfet crime, penalty, F. forfait
crime (LL. forefactum, forifactum), prop. p. p. of forfaire
to forfeit, transgress, fr. LL. forifacere, prop., to act
beyond; L. foris out of doors, abroad, beyond + facere to do.
See Foreign, and Fact.]
1. Injury; wrong; mischief. [Obs. & R.]
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To seek arms upon people and country that never did
us any forfeit. --Ld. Berners.
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2. A thing forfeit or forfeited; what is or may be taken from
one in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is
lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime,
offense, neglect of duty, or breach of contract; hence, a
fine; a mulct; a penalty; as, he who murders pays the
forfeit of his life.
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Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal
Remit thy other forfeits. --Shak.
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3. Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine; --
whence the game of forfeits.
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Country dances and forfeits shortened the rest of
the day. --Goldsmith.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Forfeit \For"feit\, v. i.
1. To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.
[Obs.]
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2. To fail to keep an obligation. [Obs.]
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I will have the heart of him if he forfeit. --Shak.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Forfeit \For"feit\, p. p. or a.
In the condition of being forfeited; subject to alienation.
--Shak.
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Once more I will renew
His laps[`e]d powers, though forfeite. --Milton.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Forfeit \For"feit\, a. [F. forfait, p. p. of forfaire. See
Forfeit, n.]
Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal
seizure.
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Thy wealth being forfeit to the state. --Shak.
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To tread the forfeit paradise. --Emerson.
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6. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Forfeit \For"feit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Forfeited; p. pr. &
vb. n. Forfeiting.] [OE. forfeten. See Forfeit, n.]
To lose, or lose the right to, by some error, fault, offense,
or crime; to render one's self by misdeed liable to be
deprived of; to alienate the right to possess, by some
neglect or crime; as, to forfeit an estate by treason; to
forfeit reputation by a breach of promise; -- with to before
the one acquiring what is forfeited.
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[They] had forfeited their property by their crimes.
--Burke.
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Undone and forfeited to cares forever! --Shak.
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Thesaurus Results for Forfeit:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
amercement, be bereaved of, bereavement, caution, caution money, charge, collateral, collateral security, cost, damage, damages, dead loss, debit, default, denial, denudation, deposit, deprivation, despoilment, destruction, detriment, dispossession, distraint, distress, divestment, drop, escheat, escheatment, expense, fee, fine, forfeiture, forgo, forgone, give over, give up, go astray from, incur loss, injury, kiss good-bye, let slip, lose, lose out, loser, losing, losing streak, loss, lost, margin, mislay, misplace, miss, mulct, penalty, perdition, privation, relinquish, relinquished, renounce, renounced, robbery, ruin, sacrifice, sconce, sequestration, spoliation, stake, stripping, suffer loss, surrender, surrendered, taking away, total loss, undergo privation, waive, waived, wander from, yielded |
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