FORGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does forged mean? 

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

1. reproduced fraudulently

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORGED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Reproduced fraudulently

Synonyms:

bad; forged

Context example:

a forged twenty dollar bill

Similar:

counterfeit; imitative (not genuine; imitating something superior)

 Context examples 

Did they accuse them of having forged these photographs?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have forged and tested every link of my chain, Professor Coram, and I am sure that it is sound.

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

The chemical elements in these grains are forged inside stars and are scattered across the cosmos when the stars die, most spectacularly in supernova explosions, the final fate of short-lived, massive stars.

(Ancient Stardust Sheds Light on the First Stars, ESO)

Could they have forged a medical certificate?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It also demonstrates that the deep, dense, inner layers of a star, where heavy elements and radioactive isotopes are forged, can be churned up and cast into space by stellar collisions.

(Stellar Corpse Reveals Origin of Radioactive Molecules, ESO)

Answers to Buruli ulcers, MRSA and other antibiotic-resistant infections may lie not in a high-tech lab, but in ancient rocks forged in a hot zone: Oregon's once—and perhaps future—volcanoes.

(New answer to MRSA, other 'superbug' infections: clay minerals?, NSF)

The overloaded and unwieldy sled forged ahead, Buck and his mates struggling frantically under the rain of blows.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

He had plenty of money, but didn't know how to spend it, and got tipsy and gambled, and ran away, and forged his father's name, I believe, and was altogether horrid.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

HEEP has, on several occasions, to the best of my knowledge, information, and belief, systematically forged, to various entries, books, and documents, the signature of Mr. W.; and has distinctly done so in one instance, capable of proof by me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Running modelling to see how this magnesium (and other elements) could have vanished, the team calculated something almost unbelievable: up to 40 percent of the mass of Earth could have evaporated in repeated episodes of vaporization as the planet forged in fire.

(Fiery Collisions That Gave Birth to Earth Could Have Evaporated 40% of Our World, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)