Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
The works where wrought iron is produced directly from the ore, or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and shingling; a shingling mill.
- 3noun
The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metalic bodies.
- 4noun
To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal.
- 5noun
To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent.
- 6noun
To coin.
- 7noun
To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate; to counterfeit, as, a signature, or a signed document.
- 8transitive verb
To commit forgery.
- 9transitive 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.
- 10transitive verb
To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.
- 11noun
a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering
Synonyms
- 12noun
furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping
- 13verb
come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort
"excogitate a way to measure the speed of light"
- 14verb
make a copy of with the intent to deceive
"he faked the signature"
"they counterfeited dollar bills"
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- 15verb
make out of components (often in an improvising manner)
"She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks"
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- 16verb
make something, usually for a specific function
"She molded the rice balls carefully"
"Form cylinders from the dough"
- 17verb
create by hammering
"hammer the silver into a bowl"
"forge a pair of tongues"
Synonyms
- 18verb
move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy
- 19verb
move ahead steadily
"He forged ahead"
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