Sample Sentences for
forfeit
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    "If we stop now, we'll have to forfeit the match!" said Harry.  (source)
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    Absent pairs forfeit the $10,000; their clues will be held until the next session.  (source)
    forfeit = lose
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    Sooner or later I'm bound to lose too, and when I do, what will they expect me to forfeit?  (source)
    forfeit = give up
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    Do you forfeit?  (source)
    forfeit = surrender (give up)
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    The big game had been forfeited, and everyone in the entire school was miserable.  (source)
    forfeited = lost due to not being there to play
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    There were more dances, and there were forfeits, and more dances, and there was cake, and there was negus, and there was a great piece of Cold Roast, and there was a great piece of Cold Boiled, and there were mince-pies, and plenty of beer.†  (source)
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    Yet should he admit this and risk forfeiting the one friend who had ever "truly understood" him?†  (source)
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    ten times faster Venus' pigeons fly To seal love's bonds new made than they are wont To keep obliged faith unforfeited!†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unforfeited means not and reverses the meaning of forfeited. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    His life is forfeit to me.  (source)
    forfeit = lost or surrendered
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    I remember thinking that he probably loved me in his own smallish way. He had forfeited me over, hadn't he? I still tell myself that when he drove away that day he wasn't saying good riddance; he was saying, Oh, Lily, you're better off there in that house of colored women.  (source)
    forfeited = surrendered to another
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    Hit said thangs like 'A female by one transgression forfeits her place in society forever.'†  (source)
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    Of course, you're forfeiting any chance of collecting a million francs-or, as you suggested, perhaps a great deal more.†  (source)
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    If Jacobs hangs for a witch he forfeit up his property—that's law!  (source)
    forfeit = loses
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