Crossword-Solution: FORFEIT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Forfeit | n. | Injury; wrong; mischief. |
| Forfeit | 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. |
| Forfeit | n. | Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine; -- whence the game of forfeits. |
| Forfeit | n. | Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure. |
| Forfeit | 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. |
| Forfeit | v. i. | To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress. |
| Forfeit | v. i. | To fail to keep an obligation. |
| Forfeit | p. p. / a. | In the condition of being forfeited; subject to alienation. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FORFEIT (5)
Nor could I have proceeded on such opinions without scruple, had I supposed that I should thereby forfeit any advantage for attaining still more accurate, should such exist.
You used to tell me that you drew the very breath of life but for me, and for love of me.” “And to probe that love, you demanded that I should forfeit mine honour,” he said, whilst gradually his impassiveness seemed to leave him, his rigidity to relax; “that I should accept without murmur or question, as a dumb and submissive slave, every action of my mistress.
Attorney-General had to inform the jury, that the prisoner before them, though young in years, was old in the treasonable practices which claimed the forfeit of his life.
The reserve which I have hitherto maintained in this matter has been misinterpreted by members of my family whose good opinion I cannot consent to forfeit.
Supported by the conviction of having done nothing to merit her present unhappiness, and consoled by the belief that Edward had done nothing to forfeit her esteem, she thought she could even now, under the first smart of the heavy blow, command herself enough to guard every suspicion of the truth from her mother and sisters.
Quotes with FORFEIT (3)
Her desires are mine. Her wishes are mine. Should even the world stand against her, my blade will be at her side. And should it fail to protect her, let my own existence be forfeit." - Ash
To love a man enough to help him, you have to forfeit the warm, self-righteous glow that comes from judging.
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WP.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1998–2022).