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Meaning of FORFEIT in English

Injury; wrong; mischief.

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    Meaning of FORFEIT in English

    • Injury; wrong; mischief.
    • 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.
    • Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine; -- whence the game of forfeits.
    • Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.
    • 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.
    • To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.
    • To fail to keep an obligation.
    • In the condition of being forfeited; subject to alienation.

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