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forged meaning

EN[fɔːdʒd]
WForged
  • Forged is a book written by the noted biblical scholar Bart D. Ehrman.

    Definition of forged in English Dictionary

  • VerbBFforgeSGforgesPRforgingPREfor-
    1. past participle of forge To force forward against opposition.
      1. He forged forward against the current, even as it tried to sweep him down river.
  • AdjectiveBFforge
    1. Fake (as documents).
      1. 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.
      1. The blacksmith made an expertly forged horseshoe by beating the red hot metal with his hammer.
  • More Examples
    1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
      • To forge over is to force a ship violently over a shoal by the effort of a great quantity of sail. --William_Falconer (1732-1769)
      • the making of the film; the forging of the sword took several hours of planning, preparation, and metalwork
  • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
    1. Adjectives
      • Uncomparable adjectives
      • Verbs
        • Verb forms
          • Participles
            • Past participles
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      Meaning of forged for the defined word.

      Grammatically, this word "forged" is an adjective, more specifically, an uncomparable adjective. It's also a verb, more specifically, a verb form.
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