Synonyms for forfeit

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : fawr-fit

Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɔr fɪt

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Définition of forfeit

Origin : c.1300, "misdeed," from Old French forfait "crime, punishable offense" (12c.), originally past participle of forfaire "transgress," from for- "outside, beyond" (from Latin foris; see foreign) + faire "to do" (from Latin facere; see factitious). Translating Medieval Latin foris factum. Sense shifted mid-15c. from the crime to the penalty: "something to which the right is lost through a misdeed." As an adjective from late 14c., from Old French forfait.

noun something given as sacrifice
verb give up something in sacrifice

Example sentences :

I am a loser also; the forfeit money bequeathed to me is gone.
Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Looking at it in the worst light, he has been guilty of nothing to forfeit his right.
Extract from : « The Channings » by Mrs. Henry Wood

By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little you gain the great.
Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Going to tell her that you will forfeit your passage money and hers?
Extract from : « Kent Knowles: Quahaug » by Joseph C. Lincoln

He is jeopardizing all our lives, and his own has been forfeit these years.
Extract from : « Scaramouche » by Rafael Sabatini

To lose Macedonia, therefore, is to forfeit the life-secret of nation.
Extract from : « England and Germany » by Emile Joseph Dillon

I'll forfeit anything, I'll do anything you like, to make amends.
Extract from : « Australia Revenged » by Boomerang

This, of course, he 'd forfeit by accepting a seat in the House.
Extract from : « Roland Cashel » by Charles James Lever

I puzzled myself long to think what I could have done to forfeit her favor.
Extract from : « That Boy Of Norcott's » by Charles James Lever

In Ireland his life was forfeit, Great Britain counted him renegade and traitor.
Extract from : « The Wild Geese » by Stanley John Weyman

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