forfeit

Definitions

1. 1noun

   Injury; wrong; mischief.

2. 2noun

   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.

3. 3noun

   Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine; -- whence the game of forfeits.

4. 4noun

   Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.

5. 5noun

   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.

6. 6intransitive verb

   To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.

7. 7intransitive verb

   To fail to keep an obligation.

8. 8participial adjectivedjectiveectivest participial adjectivedjectiveectiverticiple adjective

   In the condition of being forfeited; subject to alienation.

9. 9noun

   the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc.

   Synonyms

   forfeituresacrifice
10. 10noun

    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"

    Synonyms

    forfeiture
11. 11noun

    something that is lost or surrendered as a penalty

    Synonyms

    forfeiture
12. 12verb

    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"

    Synonyms

    foregoforgowaive
13. 13adjective

    surrendered as a penalty

    Synonyms

    confiscateforfeited