forged
About 3.18 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Fake (as documents); falsified.
Forged identification documents were used to enter the building.
- adjective 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.
- verb past participle of forge. To force forward against opposition.
He forged forward against the current, even as it tried to sweep him down river.
Similar words
counterfeit bad imitative phony sham falsifying counterfeiting falsified fake trumped-up
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