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.
- (v. i.) To fail to keep an obligation.
- (p. p. / a.) In the condition of being forfeited; subject to alienation.
Compare forfeit with other words:
forfeit vs. sacrifice
false vs. forfeit
attachment vs. forfeit
attache vs. forfeit
attached vs. forfeit
forfeit vs. lapsed
eschew vs. forfeit
forfeit vs. punishment
defeasanced vs. forfeit
forfeit vs. sequester
administrator vs. forfeit
boycott vs. forfeit
forfeit vs. lose
forfeit vs. forfeiture
forfeit vs. huff
forfeit vs. sconce
confiscate vs. forfeit
forfeit vs. undertaker
forfeit vs. forgo
forfeit vs. surrender
forfeit vs. relinquish
forfeit vs. purchase
forfeit vs. penalty