forfeit

forfeit is a 7-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, intransitive verb, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Injury; wrong; mischief. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 13 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Injury; wrong; mischief.
2. noun. 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. noun. Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine; -- whence the game of forfeits.
4. noun. Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.
5. noun. 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. intransitive verb. To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.
7. intransitive verb. To fail to keep an obligation.
8. participial adjectivedjectiveectivest participial adjectivedjectiveectiverticiple adjective. In the condition of being forfeited; subject to alienation.
9. noun. the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc.

   Synonyms: forfeiture, sacrifice

10. noun. 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. noun. something that is lost or surrendered as a penalty

    Synonyms: forfeiture

12. verb. 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: forego, forgo, waive

13. adjective. surrendered as a penalty

    Synonyms: confiscate, forfeited

Synonyms

forfeiture, sacrifice, forego, forgo, waive, confiscate, forfeited

Common word forms

forfeits, forfeited, forfeiter, forfeiting, forfeitable

Words from these letters

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