forge

forge is a 5-letter English word with 19 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., where iron is heated and wrought; a smithy. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., where iron is heated and wrought; a smithy.
2. noun. The works where wrought iron is produced directly from the ore, or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and shingling; a shingling mill.
3. noun. The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metalic bodies.
4. noun. To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal.
5. noun. To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent.
6. noun. To coin.
7. noun. To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate; to counterfeit, as, a signature, or a signed document.
8. transitive verb. To commit forgery.
9. transitive verb. To move heavily and slowly, as a ship after the sails are furled; to work one's way, as one ship in outsailing another; -- used especially in the phrase to forge ahead.
10. transitive verb. To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.
11. noun. a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering

    Synonyms: smithy

12. noun. furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping
13. verb. come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort

    "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light"

    Synonyms: contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate, invent

14. verb. make a copy of with the intent to deceive

    "he faked the signature"

    "they counterfeited dollar bills"

    Synonyms: counterfeit, fake

15. verb. make out of components (often in an improvising manner)

    "She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks"

    Synonyms: fashion

16. verb. make something, usually for a specific function

    "She molded the rice balls carefully"

    "Form cylinders from the dough"

    Synonyms: form, mold, mould, shape, work

17. verb. create by hammering

    "hammer the silver into a bowl"

    "forge a pair of tongues"

    Synonyms: hammer

18. verb. move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy

    Synonyms: spirt, spurt

19. verb. move ahead steadily

    "He forged ahead"

Synonyms

smithy, contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate, invent, counterfeit, fake, fashion, form, mold, mould, shape, work, hammer, spirt, spurt

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in forge:

gofer

Common word forms

forged, forger, forges, forging, forgeful, forgeable

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