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forged

/fɔːd͡ʒd/

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Canada/fɔːɹdʒd/

forged adjective: fake (as documents); falsified. Also the past participle of forge.

Adjective

forged (not comparable)

  1. Fake (as documents); falsified.
    • Forged identification documents were used to enter the building.
    • 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.2013 January, Brian Hayes, “Father of Fractals”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 62
  2. Fabricated by forging or at a forge, by working hot metal
    • The blacksmith made an expertly forged horseshoe by beating the red hot metal with his hammer.

Also used as

forged is also the past participle of forge.

forged meaning in Hindi, Nepali and Persian

forged in Hindi

जाली, जालीकृत, जाली बनाना

forged in Nepali

जाली

forged in Persian

fake (as documents)
ساختگی sâxtegi

Examples of forged in a sentence

  • He had to forge his ex-wife's signature. The jury learned the documents had been forged.
  • With seconds left in the race, the runner forged into first place.
  • I forged a durable relationship with my seatmate.

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Questions about forged

What does forged mean?
Forged means fake (as documents); falsified.
What is forged in Hindi?
Forged in Hindi is जाली, जालीकृत, जाली बनाना. See Forged meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is forged?
Forged is an adjective.
How do you pronounce forged?
Forged is pronounced /fɔːd͡ʒd/.

Words near forged in the dictionary

  1. forge-hammer
  2. forge-hammers
  3. forgeabilities
  4. forgeability
  5. forgeable
  6. forged
  7. forged ahead
  8. forged over
  9. forgeddaboudit
  10. forgeddit
  11. forgeless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: forged (page history and authors); forged (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); forged (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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