Synonyms of the word forfeit


FORFEITABANDON - ACT - CONFISCATE - FORFEITED - FORFEITURE - FORGO - LOSS - LOST - PENALTY - SACRIFICE - WAIVE

forfeit

  • n. A penalty for or consequence of a misdemeanor.
  • n. A thing forfeited; that which is taken from somebody in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is…
  • n. Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine as part of a game.
  • n. (obsolete, rare) Injury; wrong; mischief.
  • v. To suffer the loss of something by wrongdoing or non-compliance.
  • v. To lose a contest, game, match, or other form of competition by voluntary withdrawal, by failing to attend…
  • v. To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.
  • v. To fail to keep an obligation.
  • adj. Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.

abandon

  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To subdue; to take control of.
  • v. (transitive) To give up control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions.
  • v. (transitive) To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to…
  • v. (transitive) To leave behind; to desert as in a ship or a position, typically in response to overwhelming…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
  • v. (transitive) To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming…
  • v. (transitive) To surrender to the insurer (an insured item), so as to claim a total loss.
  • n. A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation…
  • n. (obsolete) abandonment; relinquishment.
  • adv. (obsolete, not comparable) Freely; entirely.

act

  • n. (countable) Something done, a deed.
  • n. (obsolete, uncountable) Actuality.
  • n. (countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
  • n. The process of doing something.
  • n. (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
  • n. (countable) A division of a theatrical performance.
  • n. (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
  • n. (countable) Any organized activity.
  • n. (countable) A display of behaviour.
  • n. A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the…
  • n. (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
  • v. (intransitive) To do something.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.
  • v. (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
  • v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way.
  • v. (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
  • v. To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
  • v. (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
  • v. (transitive) To play (a role).
  • v. (transitive) To feign.
  • v. (mathematics, intransitive, construed with on or upon, of a group) To map via a homomorphism to a group…
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.

confiscate

  • v. (transitive) To use one's authority to lay claim to and separate a possession from its holder.
  • adj. (obsolete) confiscated; seized and appropriated by the government for public use; forfeit.

forfeited

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of forfeit.

forfeiture

  • n. (law) A legal action whereby a person loses all interest in the forfeit property.
  • n. (law) The loss of forfeit property.
  • n. (law) The property lost as a forfeit.
  • n. Any loss occasioned by one's own actions.

forgo

  • v. To let pass, to leave alone.
  • v. To do without, to abandon.
  • v. To refrain from, to abstain from, to pass up, to withgo.

loss

  • n. an instance of losing, such as a defeat.
  • n. The result of an alteration in a function or characteristic of the body, or of its previous integrity.
  • n. the hurtful condition of having lost something or someone, particularly in death.
  • n. (in the plural) casualties, especially physically eliminated victims of violent conflict.
  • n. (financial) the sum an entity loses on balance.
  • n. destruction, ruin.
  • n. (engineering) electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work.
  • v. (colloquial) Alternative spelling of lost.

lost

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of lose.
  • adj. Having wandered from, or unable to find, the way.
  • adj. In an unknown location; unable to be found.
  • adj. Not perceptible to the senses; no longer visible.
  • adj. Parted with; no longer held or possessed.
  • adj. Not employed or enjoyed; thrown away; employed ineffectually; wasted; squandered.
  • adj. Ruined or destroyed, either physically or morally; past help or hope.
  • adj. Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible.
  • adj. Occupied with, or under the influence of, something, so as not to notice external things.

penalty

  • n. A legal sentence.
  • n. A punishment for violating rules of procedure.
  • n. (finance) A payment forfeited for an early withdrawal from an account or an investment.
  • n. (soccer) A direct free kick from the penalty spot, taken after a defensive foul in the penalty box; a…
  • n. (ice hockey) A punishment for an infraction of the rules, often in the form of being removed from play…

sacrifice

  • v. (transitive) To offer (something) as a gift to a deity.
  • v. (transitive) To give away (something valuable) to get at least a possibility to gain something else of…
  • v. (transitive) To trade (a value of higher worth) for one of lesser worth in order to gain something else…
  • v. (transitive, chess) To intentionally give up (a piece) in order to improve one’s position on the board.
  • v. (transitive, baseball) To advance (a runner on base) by batting the ball so it can be caught or fielded,…
  • v. (dated, tradesmen's slang) To sell at a price less than the cost or actual value.
  • v. To destroy; to kill.
  • n. The offering of anything to a god; consecratory rite.
  • n. Destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else; devotion of some desirable object…
  • n. Something sacrificed.
  • n. (baseball) A play in which the batter is intentionally out in order that runners can advance around the…
  • n. A loss of profit.
  • n. (slang, dated) A sale at a price less than the cost or the actual value.

waive

  • v. (obsolete) To outlaw (someone).
  • v. (obsolete) To abandon, give up (someone or something).
  • v. (transitive, law) To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego.
  • v. (now rare) To put aside, avoid.
  • v. (obsolete) To move from side to side; to sway.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To stray, wander.
  • n. (obsolete, law) A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.
  • n. (obsolete) A waif; a castaway.

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