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forfeited
[fawr-fit] 
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forfeit
[fawr-fit]
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give up something in sacrifice |
| Synonyms: | abandon, be deprived of, be stripped of, drop, give over, lose, relinquish, renounce, sacrifice, surrender |
| Antonyms: | gain, profit, win |
| Main Entry: | lose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be deprived of; mislay |
| Synonyms: | be careless, be impoverished, be reduced, become poorer, bereave, capitulate, consume, default, deplete, disinherit, displace, dispossess, dissipate, divest, drain, drop, exhaust, expend, fail, fail to keep, fall short, forfeit, forget, give up, lavish, misplace, miss, misspend, oust, pass up, relinquish, rob, sacrifice, squander, suffer, suffer loss, surrender, use up, waste, yield |
| Notes: | loose means not restrained, fastened, confined or attached, while lose means fail to keep or to maintain or fail to win |
| Antonyms: | hold on to, keep, maintain |
| Main Entry: | lost |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | missing, off-track |
| Synonyms: | absent, adrift, astray, at sea, cast away, disappeared, disoriented, down the drain, fallen between cracks, forfeit, forfeited, gone, gone astray, hidden, invisible, irrecoverable, irretrievable, irrevocable, kiss goodbye, lacking, minus, mislaid, misplaced, missed, nowhere to be found, obscured, off-course, out the window, strayed, unredeemed, vanished, wandering, wayward, without |
| Antonyms: | accomplishing, found, successful, winning |
| Main Entry: | sacrifice |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give up, let go |
| Synonyms: | cede, drop, endure, eschew, forfeit, forgo, immolate, kiss goodbye, lose, offer, offer up, part with, renounce, resign oneself to, spare, suffer, surrender, waive, yield |
| Antonyms: | hold, refuse |
| Main Entry: | forego |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | do without |
| Synonyms: | eschew, forfeit, forsake, neglect, pass, precede, quit, refrain, relinquish, renounce, sacrifice, surrender, waive, yield |
| Main Entry: | mulct |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cheat |
| Synonyms: | balk, deceive, defraud, fine, fleece, forfeit, penalize, punish, rook, steal, swindle |
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