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What's The Definition Of Forfeit?
[n] the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc.
[n] a penalty for a fault or mistake that involves losing or giving up something; "the contract specified forfeits if the work was not completed on time" [n] something that is lost or surrendered as a penalty; [adj] surrendered as a penalty [v] lose or lose the right to by some error, offense, or crime Synonyms | Synonyms for Forfeit: confiscate | forfeited | forfeiture | forfeiture | forgo | give up | lost | sacrifice | throw overboard | waive Related Terms | Find terms related to Forfeit: amercement | be bereaved of | bereavement | caution | caution money | charge | collateral | collateral security | cost | damage | damages | dead loss | debit | default | denial | denudation | deposit | deprivation | despoilment | destruction | detriment | dispossession | distraint | distress | divestment | drop | escheat | escheatment | expense | fee | fine | forfeiture | forgo | forgone | give over | give up | go astray from | incur loss | injury | kiss good-bye | let slip | lose | lose out | loser | losing | losing streak | loss | lost | margin | mislay | misplace | miss | mulct | penalty | perdition | privation | relinquish | relinquished | renounce | renounced | robbery | ruin | sacrifice | sconce | sequestration | spoliation | stake | stripping | suffer loss | surrender | surrendered | taking away | total loss | undergo privation | waive | waived | wander from | yielded See Also | abandon | act | human action | human activity | lapse | loss | penalty Forfeit In Webster's Dictionary \For"feit\, n. [OE. forfet crime, penalty, F. forfait
crime (LL. forefactum, forifactum), prop. p. p. of forfaire
to forfeit, transgress, fr. LL. forifacere, prop., to act
beyond; L. foris out of doors, abroad, beyond + facere to do.
See {Foreign}, and {FAct}.]
1. Injury; wrong; mischief. [Obs. & R.]
To seek arms upon people and country that never did
us any forfeit. --Ld. Berners.
2. A thing forfeit or forfeited; what is or may be taken from
one in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is
lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime,
offense, neglect of duty, or breach of contract; hence, a
fine; a mulct; a penalty; as, he who murders pays the
forfeit of his life.
Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal Remit thy
other forfeits. --Shak.
3. Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine; --
whence the game of forfeits.
Country dances and forfeits shortened the rest of
the day. --Goldsmith.
\For"feit\, a. [F. forfait, p. p. of forfaire. See {Forfeit}, n.] Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure. Thy wealth being forfeit to the state. --Shak. To tread the forfeit paradise. --Emerson. \For"feit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Forfeited}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Forfeiting}.] [OE. forfeten. See {Forfeit}, n.] To lose, or lose the right to, by some error, fault, offense, or crime; to render one's self by misdeed liable to be deprived of; to alienate the right to possess, by some neglect or crime; as, to forfeit an estate by treason; to forfeit reputation by a breach of promise; -- with to before the one acquiring what is forfeited. [They] had forfeited their property by their crimes. --Burke. Undone and forfeited to cares forever! --Shak. \For"feit\, v. i. 1. To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress. [Obs.] 2. To fail to keep an obligation. [Obs.] I will have the heart of him if he forfeit. --Shak. \For"feit\, p. p. or a. In the condition of being forfeited; subject to alienation. --Shak. Once more I will renew His laps[`e]d powers, though forfeite. --Milton. |
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