Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The process of shaping by heating and hammering.

    shaping metal by heating and hammering

  2. (countable)A component that is forged (shaped by heating and hammering).

Examples

5 sentences
  1. Tom was jailed for forging documents.

    ruТома посадили за подделку документов. — sharptoothed

    deTom saß wegen Dokumentenfälschung im Gefängnis. — Dani6187

  2. The blacksmith was forging a sword.

  3. Language plays a very important role in forging cultural identity.

  4. Yanni learned to sign his name by forging his father's signature.

  5. We were forging Dad's signature.

Forms

plural: forgings
Singularforging
Pluralforgings

regular

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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