Forfeit
verb
To lose or give up something as a penalty for wrongdoing.
If you cheat in the game, you will forfeit your points.
Often appears as...
- forfeit rights
- forfeit the game
noun
Something that is lost or given up as a penalty for a mistake or failure.
The team suffered a heavy forfeit after the latest match.
Often appears as...
- heavy forfeit
- pay a forfeit
verb
To willingly give up (something), as a right or claim.
By quitting, he forfeited his chance at the prize.
Often appears as...
- forfeit a claim
- forfeit a right
verb
To lose or give up something as a penalty for wrongdoing.
If you cheat in the game, you will forfeit your points.
Often appears as...
- forfeit rights
- forfeit the game
noun
Something that is lost or given up as a penalty for a mistake or failure.
The team suffered a heavy forfeit after the latest match.
Often appears as...
- heavy forfeit
- pay a forfeit
verb
To willingly give up (something), as a right or claim.
By quitting, he forfeited his chance at the prize.
Often appears as...
- forfeit a claim
- forfeit a right
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Using 'forfeit' implies a wrongdoing, emphasizing a loss due to one's action.
If found guilty, the official would forfeit his pension.
Pro Tip 2/3Involuntary Aspect
'Forfeit' often suggests losing something without a choice, typically unwanted.
Players who break the rules may forfeit their chance to compete.
Pro Tip 3/3Consequence Focus
Highlighting 'forfeit' stresses the consequence more than the act leading to it.
Doping athletes must forfeit their medals.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Using 'forfeit' implies a wrongdoing, emphasizing a loss due to one's action.
If found guilty, the official would forfeit his pension.
Pro Tip 2/3Involuntary Aspect
'Forfeit' often suggests losing something without a choice, typically unwanted.
Players who break the rules may forfeit their chance to compete.
Pro Tip 3/3Consequence Focus
Highlighting 'forfeit' stresses the consequence more than the act leading to it.
Doping athletes must forfeit their medals.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Using 'forfeit' implies a wrongdoing, emphasizing a loss due to one's action.
If found guilty, the official would forfeit his pension.
Pro Tip 2/3Involuntary Aspect
'Forfeit' often suggests losing something without a choice, typically unwanted.
Players who break the rules may forfeit their chance to compete.
Pro Tip 3/3Consequence Focus
Highlighting 'forfeit' stresses the consequence more than the act leading to it.
Doping athletes must forfeit their medals.
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Thanks to the universal penetration of running water and electricity in the developed world and the widespread adoption of washing machines, vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, dishwashers, stoves and microwaves, the amount of our lives that we forfeit to housework has fallen from 60 hours a week
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Can you solve the wizard...
The rules of magic duels are strict, and anyone who casts out of order immediately forfeits the duel. Also, to prevent draws, the rules stipulate that if everyone’s still standing at the end of the first round,
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Is the world getting...
Thanks to the universal penetration of running water and electricity in the developed world and the widespread adoption of washing machines, vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, dishwashers, stoves and microwaves, the amount of our lives that we forfeit to housework has fallen from 60 hours a week
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Can you solve the wizard...
The rules of magic duels are strict, and anyone who casts out of order immediately forfeits the duel. Also, to prevent draws, the rules stipulate that if everyone’s still standing at the end of the first round,
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Kelela
American Musician
Often, I write to feel better and to heal - to cope with things that I'm dealing with. I'm either writing to get out of a feeling or to get into the feeling, to feel it more. Usually it's the perfect remedy, but if it isn't, I focus on other parts of what I'm making that don't involve writing. If neither are working, I simply forfeit the day.
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Bret Hart
Canadian Wrestler
All the times they put tag titles on me, Intercontinental titles on me, or the world title on me, the only time I couldn't defend the title was when I had to forfeit the belt when I quit WCW and retired from wrestling forever.
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Michael Gove
British Politician
Were I ever alone in the dock, I would not want to be arraigned before our flawed tribunals, knowing my freedom could be forfeit as a result of political pressures. I would prefer a fair trial, under the shadow of the noose.
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Sue Monk Kidd
American Writer
Sometimes I was so busy being tuned in to outside ideas, expectations, and demands, I failed to hear the unique music in my soul. I forfeited my ability to listen creatively to my deepest self, to my own God within.
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Valerie Harper
American Actress
Every five minutes, every hour, every day, every year that you waste worrying about your cancer - you have forfeited time that you could have been alive having fun.
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Richard Perle
American Public Servant
National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.
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Abraham Lincoln
American President
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
German Philosopher
We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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Phaedrus
Roman Poet
I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.
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Camille Perri
American Author
We're forfeiting our power if we succumb to apathy.
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Kelela
American Musician
Often, I write to feel better and to heal - to cope with things that I'm dealing with. I'm either writing to get out of a feeling or to get into the feeling, to feel it more. Usually it's the perfect remedy, but if it isn't, I focus on other parts of what I'm making that don't involve writing. If neither are working, I simply forfeit the day.
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Bret Hart
Canadian Wrestler
All the times they put tag titles on me, Intercontinental titles on me, or the world title on me, the only time I couldn't defend the title was when I had to forfeit the belt when I quit WCW and retired from wrestling forever.
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Michael Gove
British Politician
Were I ever alone in the dock, I would not want to be arraigned before our flawed tribunals, knowing my freedom could be forfeit as a result of political pressures. I would prefer a fair trial, under the shadow of the noose.
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Sue Monk Kidd
American Writer
Sometimes I was so busy being tuned in to outside ideas, expectations, and demands, I failed to hear the unique music in my soul. I forfeited my ability to listen creatively to my deepest self, to my own God within.
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Valerie Harper
American Actress
Every five minutes, every hour, every day, every year that you waste worrying about your cancer - you have forfeited time that you could have been alive having fun.
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Richard Perle
American Public Servant
National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.
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Abraham Lincoln
American President
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
German Philosopher
We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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Phaedrus
Roman Poet
I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.
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Camille Perri
American Author
We're forfeiting our power if we succumb to apathy.
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