forfeitverb [ T ]
uk/ˈfɔː.fɪt/us/ˈfɔːr.fɪt/to lose the right to do or have something because you have broken a rule:
If you cancel now, you forfeit your deposit.
These people have forfeited the right to live in society.
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Stop having or doing something
- abdicate
- bail out
- bandh
- break with sth
- butt out
- cede
- drop
- fly
- ghost
- give (sth) up
- give sb up
- give sth up as a bad job idiom
- give up on sb/sth
- give up sth
- grow
- subjugate
- take a back seat idiom
- throw (sth) up
- throw in the towel idiom 1
- towel
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forfeitnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈfɔː.fɪt/us/ˈfɔːr.fət/something that you have lost the right to do or have because you have broken a rule
pay a forfeit
to give up something, especially in a game
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Losing and loss
- astray
- black hole
- disappear
- get to
- go walkabout idiom
- haemorrhage
- kiss
- lose
- loss
- lost
- mislay
- misplace
- miss
- say
- say goodbye to sth idiom
- slip through sb's fingers idiom
- stray
- walkabout
- wave
- wave/say goodbye to sth idiom
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forfeitadjective [ after verb ]
uk/ˈfɔː.fɪt/us/ˈfɔːr.fət/formaltaken away from someone as a punishment
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Stop having or doing something
- abdicate
- bail out
- bandh
- break with sth
- butt out
- cede
- drop
- fly
- ghost
- give (sth) up
- give sb up
- give sth up as a bad job idiom
- give up on sb/sth
- give up sth
- grow
- subjugate
- take a back seat idiom
- throw (sth) up
- throw in the towel idiom 1
- towel
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