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  • "If we stop now, we'll have to forfeit the match!" said Harry.  (source)
  • Absent pairs forfeit the $10,000; their clues will be held until the next session.  (source)
    forfeit = lose
  • Gracious and most golden one, he says — the beggar's standard address to a prospective benefactor — rumour of your extreme beauty has brought me here, though simply by being here my life is forfeit.  (source)
    forfeit = lost
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  • I'll forfeit any money owed to me.  (source)
    forfeit = give up
  • 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
  • Hit said thangs like 'A female by one transgression forfeits her place in society forever.'†  (source)
  • Of course this meant forfeiting his magic.†  (source)
  • ten times faster Venus' pigeons fly To seal love's bonds new made than they are wont To keep obliged faith unforfeited!†  (source)
    unforfeited = not surrendered or lost
    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.
  • The rules stated that if a member obtained a divorce, she would be forced to resign and forfeit her dues.  (source)
    forfeit = lose (give up any claim to)
  • The big game had been forfeited, and everyone in the entire school was miserable.  (source)
    forfeited = lost due to not being there to play
  • Neutrality is respected only when defended by adequate power; a weak nation forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.†  (source)
  • Of course, you're forfeiting any chance of collecting a million francs-or, as you suggested, perhaps a great deal more.†  (source)
  • 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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