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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    So the bail was reduced to three hundred dollars, and Harper went on it himself; he did not tell this to Jurgis, however—nor did he tell him that when the time for trial came it would be an easy matter for him to avoid the forfeiting of the bail, and pocket the three hundred dollars as his reward for the risk of offending Mike Scully!†  (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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    Yet should he admit this and risk forfeiting the one friend who had ever "truly understood" him?†  (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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