Forge
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Noun
Forge (plural Forges)- furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape
- workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them
- A counterfeit (Can we verify(+) this sense?)</span>
Verb
Forge (third-person singular simple present forges, present participle forging, simple past and past participle forged)
- To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
- To form or create with concerted effort.
- The politician's recent actions are an effort to forge a relationship with undecided voters.
- To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.
- He had to forge his ex-wife's signature.
- The jury learned the documents had been forged.
- (often as forge ahead) To move forward heavily and slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually but steadily; to proceed towards a goal in the face of resistance or difficulty.
- The party of explorers forged through the thick underbrush.
- We decided to forge ahead with our plans even though our biggest underwriter backed out.
- (sometimes as forge ahead) To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.
- With seconds left in the race, the runner forged into first place.
Adjectives for Forge
gleaming; sounding; flashing.
Adverbs for Forge
laboriously; dexterously; artfully; audaciously; deliberately; daringly; subtly.
Synonyms for Forge
reconstruct, built, form, contrive, counterfeit, falsify, invent, fabricate, coin, produce, imitate, design, fashion, make, feign, reproduce, duplicate, transcribe, copy.
Derived terms
Thesaurus
act like, affect, assume, beat, blacksmith shop, block out, bloomery, borrow, build, carve, cast, chisel, chorus, coin, concoct, construct, cook up, copy, counterfeit, create, crib, cut, devise, ditto, do, do like, echo, efform, fabricate, fake, falsify, fantasize, fashion, figure, fix, form, formalize, found, foundry, frame, fudge, furnace, go like, hatch, hew, hoke, hoke up, imitate, invent, knead, knock out, lay out, lick into shape, make, make like, make up, manufacture, metalworks, mint, mirror, model, mold, mould, plagiarize, pound, put together, reecho, reflect, repeat, reproduce, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, sculpt, sculpture, set, shape, shove the queer, simulate, smelter, smithery, smithy, stamp, steel mill, steelworks, stithy, tailor, thermoform, think up, trump up, turn out, utter, work
Pronunciation
- IPA: /foʊɹdʒ/, /fɔːɹdʒ/
- Rhymes: -ɔː(r)dʒ
Etymology 1
From Old French forge, early Old French faverge, from Latin fabrica (“workshop”), from faber (“workman in hard materials, smith”) (genitive fabri). The verb is from Anglo-Norman forger (“to falsify”), from Old French forgier, from Latinfabrico (“to frame, construct, build”).
Etymology 2
Make way, move ahead, most likely an alteration of force, but perhaps from forge (n.), via notion of steady hammering at something. Originally nautical, in referrence to vessels.
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