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Another word for forge

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Verb

  1. To shape, break, or flatten with repeated blows

      1. A unit of weight equal to 16 ounces (453.592 grams).
      2. A unit of apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces (373.242 grams).
      3. A unit of weight differing in various countries and times.
      1. A hand tool consisting of a handle with a head of metal or other heavy rigid material that is attached at a right angle, used for striking or pounding.
      2. The part of a gunlock that hits the primer or firing pin or explodes the percussion cap and causes the gun to fire.
      3. One of the padded wooden pieces of a piano that strikes the strings.
      1. To strike repeatedly.
      2. To subject to repeated beatings or physical abuse; batter.
      3. To punish by hitting or whipping; flog.
    See also:

    strike

    repetition

  2. To create by forming, combining, or altering materials

      1. The characteristic surface configuration of a thing; an outline or contour:
      2. Spatial form, contour, or appearance:
      3. The body or outward appearance of a person or an animal:
      1. To assemble, construct, or build.
      2. (idiomatic) In total.
      3. (psychology) Stable; competent; responsible.
      1. To bring forth; yield:
      2. To create by physical or mental effort:
      3. To manufacture:
      1. A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance.
      2. A frame or model around or on which something is formed or shaped.
      3. Something that is made in or shaped on a mold.
      1. To make or process (a raw material) into a finished product, especially by means of a large-scale industrial operation.
      2. To make or process (a product), especially with the use of industrial machines.
      3. To create, produce, or turn out in a mechanical manner:
      1. To cause to exist or happen; bring about; create:
      2. To bring into existence by shaping, modifying, or putting together material; construct:
      3. To form by assembling individuals or constituents:
      1. A structure that gives shape or support:
      2. The structure or physique of a human or animal body:
      3. An open structure or rim for encasing, holding, or bordering:
      1. The prevailing style or custom, as in dress or behavior:
      2. Something, such as a garment, that is in the current mode:
      3. Manner or mode; way:
      1. To make; create.
      2. To construct by combining or assembling diverse, typically standardized parts:
      3. To concoct in order to deceive:
      1. To form by assembling or combining parts; build.
      2. To create (an argument or a sentence, for example) by systematically arranging ideas or terms.
      3. To draw (a geometric figure) that meets specific requirements.
      1. To form by combining materials or parts; construct.
      2. To order, finance, or supervise the construction of:
      3. To develop or give form to according to a plan or process; create:
      1. To bring or call together into a group or whole:
      2. To fit together the parts or pieces of:
      3. To gather together; congregate:
    See also:

    make

  3. To make a fraudulent copy of

      1. To state untruthfully; misrepresent.
      2. To make false by altering or adding to:
      3. To counterfeit; forge:
      1. Having a false or misleading appearance; fraudulent.
      2. One that is not authentic or genuine; a sham.
      3. A brief feint or aborted change of direction intended to mislead one's opponent or the opposing team.
      1. To make an imitation or copy of (something), usually with the intent to defraud:
      2. To make a pretense of; feign:
      3. To carry on a deception; dissemble.
    See also:

    true

  4. To move or advance against strong resistance

      1. To dive, jump, or throw oneself:
      2. To fall rapidly:
      3. To devote oneself to or undertake an activity earnestly or wholeheartedly:
      1. A sudden thrust or pass, as with a sword.
      2. A sudden forward movement or plunge.
      3. To make a sudden thrust or pass.
      1. To push, propel, or press onward forcibly; urge forward:
      2. To repulse or put to flight by force or influence:
      3. To guide, control, or direct (a vehicle).
    See also:

    move

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Another word for forge

Verb

  1. To imitate fraudulently

      1. A visible mark, such as a footprint, made or left by the passage of a person, animal, or thing.
      2. Evidence or an indication of the former presence or existence of something; a vestige:
      3. An extremely small amount or barely perceivable indication:
      1. To have or take on the appearance, sound, or character of; imitate:
      2. To make in imitation of or as a substitute for:
      3. To make a pretense of; feign:
      1. To produce again or anew; re-create:
      2. To produce a copy, imitation, or representation of:
      3. To generate (offspring) by sexual or asexual means.
      1. Identically copied from an original.
      2. Existing or growing in two corresponding parts; double.
      3. Denoting a manner of play in cards in which partnerships or teams play the same deals and compare scores at the end:
      1. To make a full written or typewritten copy of (dictated material, for example).
      2. To transfer (information) from one recording and storing system to another.
      3. To adapt or arrange (a composition) for a voice or instrument other than the original.
      1. An imitation or reproduction of an original; a duplicate:
      2. A file that has the same data as another file:
      3. One example of a printed text, picture, film, or recording:
      1. To use or follow as a model:
      2. To copy the mannerisms or speech of; mimic:
      3. To copy (mannerisms or speech):
      1. To give a false appearance of:
      2. To represent falsely; pretend to:
      3. To imitate so as to deceive:
      1. To make; create.
      2. To construct by combining or assembling diverse, typically standardized parts:
      3. To concoct in order to deceive:
      1. A structure that gives shape or support:
      2. The structure or physique of a human or animal body:
      3. An open structure or rim for encasing, holding, or bordering:
      1. To produce or contrive (something previously unknown) by the use of ingenuity or imagination.
      2. To make up; fabricate:
      1. A small piece of metal, usually flat and circular, authorized by a government for use as money.
      2. Metal money considered as a whole.
      3. A flat circular piece or object felt to resemble metal money:
      1. (idiomatic) to create falsely, to fabricate (particularly applied to accusations, (legal) charges or evidence).
      2. (idiomatic) Heavily publicise, promote or market a product.
      1. Having a false or misleading appearance; fraudulent.
      2. One that is not authentic or genuine; a sham.
      3. A brief feint or aborted change of direction intended to mislead one's opponent or the opposing team.
      1. To make an imitation or copy of (something), usually with the intent to defraud:
      2. To make a pretense of; feign:
      3. To carry on a deception; dissemble.
      1. To state untruthfully; misrepresent.
      2. To make false by altering or adding to:
      3. To counterfeit; forge:

  2. To form

    See also:

    manufacture

    form

  3. To move ahead; often used with ""ahead''

    See also:

    advance

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Sentence Examples

  • English local tradition placed Wayland Smith's forge in a cave close to the White Horse in Berkshire.

  • Thomas Bunyan had a forge and workshop at Elstow.

  • During the War of Independence battles were fought at Brandywine (1777), Paoli (1777), Fort Mifflin (1777) and Germantown (1777), and Washington's army spent the winter of1777-1778at Valley Forge; and Philadelphia was occupied by the British from the 26th of September 1777 to the 18th of June 1778.

  • The best argument in its favour is the improbability of anybody having taken the trouble to forge so bald and awkward a heap of details.

  • Returning in June 1678 to Tonge, he set himself to forge a plot by piecing together things true and false, or true facts falsely interpreted, and by inventing treasonable letters and accounts of preparations for military action.

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