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  1. 1. n. Injury; wrong; mischief. Source: opted
  2. 2. n. A thing forfeit or forfeited; what is or may be taken from one in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, offense, neglect of duty, or breach of contract; hence, a fine; a mulct; a penalty; as, he who murders pays the forfeit of his life. Source: opted
  3. 3. n. Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine; -- whence the game of forfeits. Source: opted
  4. 4. n. Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure. Source: opted
  5. 5. n. To lose, or lose the right to, by some error, fault, offense, or crime; to render one's self by misdeed liable to be deprived of; to alienate the right to possess, by some neglect or crime; as, to forfeit an estate by treason; to forfeit reputation by a breach of promise; -- with to before the one acquiring what is forfeited. Source: opted
  6. 6. v. i. To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress. Source: opted
  7. 7. v. i. To fail to keep an obligation. Source: opted
  8. 8. p. p. / a. In the condition of being forfeited; subject to alienation. Source: opted
  9. 9. adj. surrendered as a penalty Source: wordnet
  10. 10. n. something that is lost or surrendered as a penalty Source: wordnet
  11. 11. n. a penalty for a fault or mistake that involves losing or giving up something Source: wordnet
  12. 12. n. the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc. Source: wordnet

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