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Schmieden — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • forge noun A furnace or workshop where metal is heated and shaped.
  • forged adj Fake or falsified, as with a document or signature.
  • forgery noun The crime of faking a document, signature, or artwork to deceive people.
  • malleate adj Possessing or resembling a malleus, or another structure shaped like a hammer.

Senses

Schmieden is used for these senses in English:

  • forge (metallurgy) To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
  • forged Fabricated by forging or at a forge, by working hot metal
  • forgery The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; especially the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another, the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud.
  • malleate (rare) To beat into shape with a hammer. [from 1598]

forge — full definition

  1. noun A furnace or workshop where metal is heated and shaped.
  2. verb To shape metal by heating and hammering it.
  3. verb To illegally copy or fake a document, signature, or item.
  4. verb To build or develop something gradually through effort.

forged — full definition

  1. adj Fake or falsified, as with a document or signature.
  2. adj Made by heating and hammering metal.

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