English

Adjective

forged ‎(not comparable)

1. Fake (as documents).
   • 2013 January 1, Brian Hayes, “Father of Fractals”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 62:

     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.

   Forged identification documents were used to enter the building.

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.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:fake

Translations

Verb

forged

1. past participle of forge. To force forward against opposition.

   He forged forward against the current, even as it tried to sweep him down river.