Word Finder - forged

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To shape a metal by heating and hammering.

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To form or create with concerted effort.

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The politician's recent actions are an effort to forge a relationship with undecided voters.

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To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.

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He had to forge his ex-wife's signature.  The jury learned the documents had been forged.

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To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.

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(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.

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The party of explorers forged through the thick underbrush.

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(sometimes as forge ahead) To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.

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With seconds left in the race, the runner forged into first place.

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Fake (as documents); falsified.

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Forged identification documents were used to enter the building.

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Fabricated by forging or at a forge, by working hot metal

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The blacksmith made an expertly forged horseshoe by beating the red hot metal with his hammer.

The district is the seat of an extensive manufacture of forged antiques.

The axis is of forged steel 21 in.

Then, too, history was often expressly forged for party ends.

The tumult was with difficulty quelled, partly by well-timed concessions, for which the authority of the emperor was forged, but chiefly owing to his personal popularity.

In all cases the bricks have been made, the stone quarried and dressed, the timber sawn, the iron cast, forged and wrought by the prisoners.

Forged and annealed, magnified r000 diameters, showing pearlite.

Magnetites were also early employed, at first in Catalan forges, in which by means of a direct process the metal was secured from the ores and forged into blooms without being cast; later they were smelted in blast furnaces.

In support of this argument it is to be noted that the forged document first appears at the abbey of St Denis, where Stephen spent the winter months of 754.

Contradictions are often copied down without the writer noticing them; and since the middle ages forged and falsified so many documents, - monasteries, towns and corporations gaining privileges or titles of possession by the bold use of them, - the narrative of medieval writers cannot be relied upon unless we can verify it by collateral evidence.

The exact date and the circumstances of the composition of the collection are still an open question, but it is certain that Hincmar was one of the first to know of their existence, and apparently he was not aware that the documents were forged.

From the same source and at the same date came two other forged documents - firstly, a collection of Capitularies, in three books, ascribed to a certain Benedict (Benedictus Levita), 2 a deacon of the church of Mainz; this collection, in which authentic documents find very little place, stands with regard to civil legislation exactly in the position of the False Decretals with regard to canon law.

The first fruits of this arrangement, which was based on no firmer foundation than the forged "Donation of Constantine" (q.v.), but destined to give to the papacy a position of independence towards both the Eastern and Western Empires, was the reduction in the autumn, with Norman aid, of Galera, where the anti-pope had taken refuge, and the end of the subordination of the papacy to the Roman nobles.

Their appointment, according to notions which defined themselves within the church at this epoch, was simoniacal; and during the long minority of Henry IV., who succeeded his father in 1056, the terrible Tuscan monk, Hildebrand of Soana, forged weapons which he used with deadly effect against the presumption of the empire.

After his death, his son Philip having predeceased him (1298), Artois was adjudged to his daughter Mahaut, or Matilda, as against her nephew Robert, son of Philip, who attempted to support his claim to the countship by forged titles.

It is now generally attributed to the year 1590, and is supposed to have been forged to support the election of Cardinal Simoncelli to the papal chair.

He had previously been arrested and acquitted on a charge of having attributed the forged letter to Randolph.

Accordingly they produced a copy of a forged charter from.

While on the march between Heracleia and Byzantium, at the beginning of the following year, he was assassinated through the treachery of his secretary Eros, who, in order to escape the discovery of his own irregularities, incited certain officers against the emperor by showing them a forged list, on which their names appeared as marked out for death.

But every brand forged by the smith broke under Sigurd's stroke; till at last he fetched the fragments of the sword Gram, Odin's gift to his father, which Hiortis had carefully treasured.

These Sigurd forged into a new sword, so hard that with it he could cleave the anvil and so sharp that it would sever a flock of wool floating against it down stream; and, so armed, he sought and slew the dragon.

Forged by war and hardened by exile to the bowels of Hell, Darkyn understood only violence, war and bloodlust.

Thankfully, treasured friendships forged over decades are not easily shaken by nasty innuendo.

In Glencoe, Clan Henderson forged a close alliance with the powerful Clan Donald.

Sigurd tested the strength of the blade by striking the anvil on which it was forged and split it down to the stock.

Singapore's popular hawker stalls are actually serving up a melting pot of culinary delights forged by Singapore's unique multi-cultural heritage.

There is now new cold forged dropouts that are stiffer and lighter that rear axle we previously spoke about.

These include forged aluminum gear and brake levers, die cast aluminum footrest mounts, an aluminum silencer, and tubeless radial tires.

Anything you receive may not have originated from where it says it does, as mail headers are easily forged.

Independent since 1991, Croatia has quickly forged its own unique identity, whilst retaining and preserving a rich cultural heritage.

This course has been selected on the basis of the links already forged between the UKDA and HE.

A 7 man break formed on the second lap and soon forged a 45 sec gap.

If the monks forged it they did a more interesting job than most medieval forgers.

Knives are made as a single piece of forged stainless steel especially hardened to maintain a cutting edge.

Attempting to impersonate any person by using forged headers or other identifying information is prohibited.

The two works were forged steel ingots weighing 38 tons each.

The bells are secured to their headstocks with conventional forged ironwork which loops around the canons.

The IPFA has grown strongly since and I'm pleased that CIPFA has forged close links with the new organization.

Moreover, Russia wants to remind the US that the partnership forged after September 11th has become somewhat lopsided.

Here iron was forged to arm the soldiers of the marcher lords.

The forged metalwork is by Alan Evans who works in Gloucestershire and continues the tradition of British artist blacksmiths.

Robs engine is also running our design forged pistons.

Sales revenues forged ahead, growing 19% year on year whilst operating profit increased by 15% .

Over the past eight years, as part of a general economic upswing across the Western world, the Scottish economy has forged ahead.

Miss Turner was decoyed from school by means of a forged letter, and made to believe that she could only save her father from ruin by marrying Wakefield, whom she accordingly accompanied to Gretna Green.

The result of their report was that all pilgrimage thither from the province of Bohemia was prohibited by the archbishop on pain of excommunication, while Huss, with the full sanction of his superior, gave to the world his first published writing, entitled De Omni Sanguine Christi Glorificato, in which he declaimed in no measured terms against forged miracles and ecclesiastical greed, urging Christians at the same time to desist from looking for sensible signs of Christ's presence, but rather to seek Him in His enduring word.

An appendix contends against Whiston that the book of Daniel was forged in the time of Antiochus Epiphanes (see DEisM).

Regular industrial work is however handicapped by competition with the tourist trade in its several branches - acting as guides and camp servants, manufacture and sale of " souvenirs ' (carved toys and trinklets in mother - of-pearl and olive-wood, forged antiquities and the like), and the analogous trade in objets de piete (rosaries, crosses, crude religious pictures, &c.) for pilgrims. Travellers in the country squander their money recklessly, and these trades, at once easy and lucrative, are thus fatally attractive to the indolent Syrian and prejudicial to the best interests of the country.

Apart altogether, however, from such considerations, it now seems fairly certain, from Mr Lang's further research into the problem of James de la Cloche (see LA Cloche), that the latter was identical with the "Prince" James Stuardo who died in Naples in 1669, and that he hoaxed the general of the Jesuits and forged a number of letters purporting to be from Charles II.

Most of these spoof emails contain links to a forged web page or site.

Instead she 's a strong-willed woman who has forged a successful career, mostly in spite of her family.