Forfeits is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FORFEITS in dictionary:

VERB:
• FORFEIT, 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
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.
ADJECTIVE:
• lost or surrendered as a penalty for wrongdoing
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to lose as a penalty

Words related to FORFEITS

forfeit13 forfeited16 forfeiting17

How to use FORFEITS in a sentence

• He knows, if he is caught tripping in a casual expression, he forfeits, for himself, at least, his claim to the invidious exemption.
• When all the ladies and gentlemen have had to give various forfeits, the work of redeeming them commences.
• In the party you see, they have been playing a game of forfeits and sentence is being passed upon all those, who have been unfortunate enough to have had them to pay.
• A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.
• In the first place, it forfeits the respect and confidence of other nations, and all the advantages connected with national character.
• Now, if a State Government forfeits all right to the allegiance and support of its citizens, they are not thereby absolved from their allegiance to the Federal Government.
• But any deference to some eminent man or woman of the world, forfeits all privilege of nobility.
• All the players having forfeits are demanded to pay their forfeits by performing some stunt suggested by one of the group selected to determine the penalty.
• If a church claims to have the Truth, she forfeits her first claim to a hearing if she asks for no sacrifice.
• When the forfeits had to be redeemed, the girls made the boys do several ridiculous things.
• Well! Why not? Is it so much for a wife to give? I know you all think that a man who marries a rich woman forfeits his self-respect if he spends a penny without her approval.
• Resistance forfeits the blessing which can be yielded only to the loving, submissive spirit.
• It would not be with his will if any other person, high or low, contributed to his heavy forfeits.
• His own comfort he forfeits for the well-being of all.
• The humanity of the law feels and regrets every pain it causes, every hour of restraint it imposes, and more deeply still every life it forfeits.
• Failure is a sort of treason to the brotherhood, and forfeits pity.
• We cannot forfeit our right to it, but by what forfeits our title to the privileges of our kind.
• It is a sort of unwritten law that in parties such as ours, he who steals provisions forfeits his life.
• A general who obstinately refuses to place himself in accord with the political situation forfeits the confidence of his employers and the cordial support of the Administration.
• Naturally the forfeits became in practice, in spite of the law, sums of money.
• The traitor against the General Government forfeits his slave at least as justly as he does any other property, and he forfeits both to the Government against which he offends.
• The same situation, if revived in memory when the system is in an opposite and relaxed state, forfeits all power to attract and fills the mind rather with aversion and disgust.
• The children had been playing forfeits, and in Gilead you played games at parties until you were at least twenty.
• Illusion is the special object of the theatre, and this forfeits its magic when once inquiry is directed too curiously to its method of contrivance.
• Then they played blind-duck-bluff, and post-office and clap-in clap-out, and forfeits and, oh, such lots of games that I can hardly remember them.
• By stealing, he forfeits his liberty, and may be justly imprisoned.
• By committing murder, he forfeits his right to life, and may be hanged.
• Any person who refuses to pay the fines or expenses mentioned, or wilfully violates any of the foregoing rules, forfeits thereby all right to the use of the library.

Similar words containing FORFEIT without suffix s

forfeit13 forfeited16 forfeiter15 forfeiters16 forfeiting17 forfeiture16 forfeitable19 forfeitures17 unforfeited18 nonforfeiture19 nonforfeitable22 nonforfeitures20

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