forge

forge
I
n
1.(all for heating metal) fireplace, furnace, hearth, bloomery, chafery.
2. smithy, smithery, stithy, blacksmith's workshop; ironworks, foundry.
v
3. beat, hammer out, Fig. extund; form, shape, fashion, mold, found, cast.
4. conceive, invent, devise, create, frame, coin, compose; fabricate, manufacture, produce.
5.(all usu. of handwriting; fraudulently) imitate, copy, reproduce, simulate, duplicate, replicate, mimic, ape; falsify, alter, modify.
6.(both of money) counterfeit, Brit. Inf. coin.
II
v (usu. used with ahead) push on, plod along, press on; progress laboriously, drudge, drive, shove; move forward slowly, inch, make one's way.

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Synonyms:
(for heavy work), , (metal), , (by heating and hammering), , / (to make iron more malleable), , , , , / , ,


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  • forge — [fɔːdʒ ǁ fɔːrdʒ] verb [transitive] 1. LAW to produce a document or money that is not Genuine (= real), or to sign something with a false name: • They had forged some company documents and set up phoney ( …   Financial and business terms

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  • Forge — Forge, v. i. [See {Forge}, v. t., and for sense 2, cf. {Forge} compel.] 1. To commit forgery. [1913 Webster] 2. (Naut.) To move heavily and slowly, as a ship after the sails are furled; to work one s way, as one ship in outsailing another; used… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • forgé — forgé, ée (for jé, jée) part. passé de forger. 1°   Travaillé à la forge. Fer forgé. 2°   Fig. Un mot forgé, mot inventé, fabriqué.    Écrit forgé, écrit supposé, qui porte une fausse attribution. •   Il [Charles XII] les appela médiateurs… …   Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • forge — ‘make’ [13] and forge ahead [17] are two quite distinct and unrelated words in English. The former’s now common connotation of ‘faking’ is in fact a purely English development (dating from the late 14th century) in a word whose relatives in other …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • forge — forge·a·bil·i·ty; forge·able; forge·man; forge; re·forge; …   English syllables

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