Word info Synonyms

forfeits

Speech parts

1. forfeits - Noun

2. forfeits - Verb

Meaning

forfeits

plural of forfeit

forfeits (uncountable)

A game in which forfeits are demanded.

forfeits

third-person singular simple present indicative of forfeit

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Examples

National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government. Richard Perle

Who loves his country never forfeits heaven. Alfred Austin

Superior people are only those who let it be discovered by others; the need to make it evident forfeits the very virtue they aspire to. Sydney J. Harris

If for harming himself a man forfeits his freedom, then he is not free at all. Ilana Mercer

A King, by disallowing Acts of this salutary nature, from being the father of his people, degenerated into a Tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience. Patrick Henry

To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense. Charles Churchill (satirist)

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