EGAVE

forgery

About 0.97 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The act of forging metal into shape.
    the forgery of horseshoes
  2. noun The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; especially the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another, the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud.
    the forgery of a bond
  3. noun That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised or counterfeited.
  4. noun An invention, creation.

Similar words

imitation counterfeit forging scythe rigging piracy graft fabrication alteration tampering

Often followed by

of and in is or was by to as

Word family

forgeries

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