Forfeit is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FORFEIT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to lose the right to by fault or penalty
• lose or be deprived of (property or a right or privilege) as a penalty for wrongdoing
• lose or give up (something) as a necessary consequence of something else
• To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.
• To fail to keep an obligation.
• lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime
• lose as a forfeit
PREPOSITION:
• In the condition of being forfeited; subject to alienation.
NOUN:
• a fine or penalty for wrongdoing
• an item of property or a right or privilege lost as a legal penalty.
• a game in which trivial penalties are exacted for minor misdemeanours.
• the action of forfeiting something.
• thing lost or given up as a penalty for a fault or mistake
• Injury; wrong; mischief.
• 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.
• Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine; -- whence the game of forfeits.
• Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.
• 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.
• something that is lost or surrendered as a penalty
• a penalty for a fault or mistake that involves losing or giving up something
• the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc.
ADJECTIVE:
• lost or surrendered as a penalty for wrongdoing
• lost as a forfeit
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to lose as a penalty

Words related to FORFEIT

forfault14 forfeitable19 forfeited16 forfeiter15 forfeiters16 forfeiting17 forfeits14

Words that contain FORFEIT

forfeits14 forfeited16 forfeiter15 forfeiters16 forfeiting17 forfeiture16 forfeitable19 forfeitures17 unforfeited18 nonforfeiture19 nonforfeitable22 nonforfeitures20

How to use FORFEIT in a sentence

• Thou art found, as thou must needs admit, in possession of a contraband article forfeit to the crown by operation of law.
• It might save their lives, but it would almost to a certainty forfeit the crown.
• He may forfeit the Esteem we have conceived of him, and some time or other appear to us under a different Light from what he does at present.
• If ever you disturb our streets again, Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.
• This and a considerable portion of territory also forfeit in Leinster was now offered to English colonists upon the most advantageous terms.
• In the cotton and sugar region there is a fearful amount of this desperate gambling, in which, though money is the ostensible stake and forfeit, human life is the real one.
• This command being treated with contempt, the lands John held under the French crown were declared forfeit, and an army levied to put it into execution.
• If he shed one drop of blood or if he cut more or less than an exact pound, his life would be forfeit.
• To this I subscribe, and to the same forfeit on my side.
• If you leave, you forfeit your whole position forever.
• By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little you gain the great.
• Born again, into new conditions, the primitive may be highly polished of men, and forfeit nothing save the roughness of his original nature.
• Death alone can seal the title of any man to this honor, by putting it out of his power to forfeit it.
• He said that he would remit the original forfeit and she could kiss him instead.
• If, however, he had no fortune to forfeit, he was to be whipped back again and sold into slavery.
• My father still wore the dress which he only donned when some poor soul was about to die and pay the forfeit.
• Even if his friends could harbor him after such a deed, his enemies would find him, and his life would be forfeit to a certainty.
• In England, however, the statute at that time said that a person who bought up all the foreign product must forfeit all the profits to the state.
• Such verse must inevitably forfeit whatever advantage lies in the discipline of public criticism and the enforced conformity to accepted ways.
• It may be asked why I did not forfeit my forty-four shillings, and thus escape the calamity.
• If I ever wished to justify my perfect innocence, I should forfeit my chances, at once, by accepting the snub I had received.
• The destroyer of Catilina had declared that he would not forfeit his rights to a triumph for his Cilician victories by appearing prematurely in the Senate.
• If I marry without your consent under the age of twenty-one, I forfeit my patrimony.
• They comforted themselves by the conjecture that he had, at length, paid the forfeit of his temerity, and that his steed had gone home with a bloody bridle and an empty saddle.

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