forged

Adjective
Synonyms: bad

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (1)

  1. reproduced fraudulently“like a bad penny...”“a forged twenty dollar bill”Synonyms: bad
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Forge \Forge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Forged; p. pr. & vb. n. Forging.] [F. forger, OF. forgier, fr. L. fabricare, fabricari, to form, frame, fashion, from fabrica. See Forge, n., and cf. Fabricate.]

1.To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal. [1913 Webster]

Mars's armor forged for proof eterne.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

2.To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent. [1913 Webster]

Those names that the schools forged, and put into the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance into common use.— Locke.[1913 Webster]
Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves.— Tennyson.[1913 Webster]

3.To coin. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

4.To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate; to counterfeit, as, a signature, or a signed document. [1913 Webster]

That paltry story is untrue, And forged to cheat such gulls as you.— Hudibras.[1913 Webster]
Forged certificates of his . . . moral character.— Macaulay.

Syn: To fabricate; counterfeit; feign; falsify. [1913 Webster]

forged \forged\ (f[=o]rjd), adj.

1.Not genuine; counterfeit; -- used mostly of signatures and documents. See forge, v. t., 4.

Syn: bad. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

2.shaped by strong pressure in a press, or by heatng and hammering; -- of metal objects.

Note: Also used metaphorically of results requiring intense or difficult effort. [PJC]

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