adj Fake or falsified, as with a document or signature.
- Forged identification documents were used to enter the building.
- The passport was clearly forged.
- Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.
— Brian Hayes, Father of Fractals (2013)
- The bank refused the check because the signature on it was forged.
- Police found a stack of forged tickets in the van.
adj Made by heating and hammering metal.
- The knife has a forged steel blade, not a stamped one.
- The blacksmith made a forged iron gate that has lasted for generations.
- Forged tools are usually stronger than cast ones.
