forged
adj/fɔːd͡ʒd/ · CA /fɔːɹdʒd/
1
Fake (as documents); falsified.
- Forged identification documents were used to enter the building.
- Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.2013 January 23, Brian Hayes, “Father of Fractals”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 62:
2
Fabricated by forging or at a forge, by working hot metal
- The blacksmith made an expertly forged horseshoe by beating the red hot metal with his hammer.
- Related terms
- drop-forged