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forfeited

[ UK /fˈɔːfɪtɪd/ ]
[ US /ˈfɔɹfɪtɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. surrendered as a penalty

How To Use forfeited In A Sentence

  • The franchise needs continuity to ensure that positive public perception isn't forfeited unnecessarily through the dissipation or reduction of essential experience.
  • forfeited" -- which of course meant that they should be set free. Abraham Lincoln and the Union; a chronicle of the embattled North
  • The match was the first to be forfeited in Test history and led to the umpire losing his place on the elite panel. Times, Sunday Times
  • They coauthored a statement “that we are indeed guilty . . . and that hereby we have forfeited our lives into the hands of public justice.” A Renegade History of the United States
  • Social Security is a diabolically inadequate program: if you die, the ‘contributions’ you've made to the system are forfeited, and your heirs are out of luck.
  • They have forfeited the game and are returning to their homes to lick their wounds like the pathetic curs they are!
  • But they had by their sin forfeited both the love of God and dominion over their neighbours. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
  • Time was — time is — and, if I catch it not by the forelock as it passes, time will be no more — Nettlewood will be forfeited — and if I have in addition a lawsuit for my title, and for Oakendale, I run a risk of being altogether capotted. Saint Ronan's Well
  • His bondsmen were his sympathizers, and the court records show that they were required to pay the forfeited bonds. Anti-Slavery Leaders of North Carolina
  • At the general election of 1950, it put up 100 candidates, lost both its seats, and forfeited 97 deposits.
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