forfeit

forfeit has 13 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• n.. Injury; wrong; mischief.
• n.. 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.
• n.. Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine; -- whence the game of forfeits.
• n.. Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.
• 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.
• v. i.. To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.
• v. i.. To fail to keep an obligation.
• p. p. / a.. In the condition of being forfeited; subject to alienation.
• 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;
• v.. lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime; "you've forfeited your right to name your successor"; "forfeited property"