Word
Forfeit
How many syllables?
2 Syllables
How it's divided?
for-feit
Definition
- 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.
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