FORFEITED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does forfeited mean? 

• FORFEITED (adjective)
  The adjective FORFEITED has 1 sense:

1. surrendered as a penalty

  Familiarity information: FORFEITED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORFEITED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Surrendered as a penalty

Synonyms:

confiscate; forfeit; forfeited

Similar:

lost (not gained or won)

 Context examples 

If you fail me, then my honour as well as my position are forever forfeited.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"You've forfeited your rights to own that dog," was the rejoinder.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Before Emma had forfeited her confidence, and about the third time of their meeting, she heard all Mrs. Elton's knight-errantry on the subject.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

He paid her only the compliment of attention; and she felt a respect for him on the occasion, which the others had reasonably forfeited by their shameless want of taste.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

In the final bout, however, Sir Nigel struck his opponent with so true an aim that the point of the lance caught between the bars of his vizor and tore the front of his helmet out, while the German, aiming somewhat low, and half stunned by the shock, had the misfortune to strike his adversary upon the thigh, a breach of the rules of the tilting-yard, by which he not only sacrificed his chances of success, but would also have forfeited his horse and his armor, had the English knight chosen to claim them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That part of me which I had the power of projecting, had lately been much exercised and nourished; it had seemed to me of late as though the body of Edward Hyde had grown in stature, as though (when I wore that form) I were conscious of a more generous tide of blood; and I began to spy a danger that, if this were much prolonged, the balance of my nature might be permanently overthrown, the power of voluntary change be forfeited, and the character of Edward Hyde become irrevocably mine.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

In this world the penalty is less equal than could be wished; but without presuming to look forward to a juster appointment hereafter, we may fairly consider a man of sense, like Henry Crawford, to be providing for himself no small portion of vexation and regret: vexation that must rise sometimes to self-reproach, and regret to wretchedness, in having so requited hospitality, so injured family peace, so forfeited his best, most estimable, and endeared acquaintance, and so lost the woman whom he had rationally as well as passionately loved.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

A man of honour could not have doubted the intention, but Mr. Darcy chose to doubt it—or to treat it as a merely conditional recommendation, and to assert that I had forfeited all claim to it by extravagance, imprudence—in short anything or nothing.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The bird complained to the dog of this bare-faced robbery, but nothing he said was of any avail, for the dog answered that he found false credentials on the sausage, and that was the reason his life had been forfeited.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

You see that even a villain and murderer can inspire such affection that his brother turns to suicide when he learns that his neck is forfeited.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)