3. (verb)forge, hammer create by hammering "hammer the silver into a bowl"; "forge a pair of tongues"
4. (verb)forge, fake, counterfeit make a copy of with the intent to deceive "he faked the signature"; "they counterfeited dollar bills"; "She forged a Green Card"
5. (verb)invent, contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate, forge come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light"
7. (verb)forge, spurt, spirt move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy
8. (verb)shape, form, work, mold, mould, forge make something, usually for a specific function "She molded the rice balls carefully"; "Form cylinders from the dough"; "shape a figure"; "Work the metal into a sword"
9. (verb)fashion, forge make out of components (often in an improvising manner) "She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks"
1. (verb)forge to illegally make a copy of sth to forge a check/signature
2. forge to develop or create sth to forge a relationship/career
Definition of 'forge'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)forge a place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., where iron is heated and wrought; a smithy
2. (noun)forge the works where wrought iron is produced directly from the ore, or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and shingling; a shingling mill
3. (noun)forge the act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metalic bodies
4. (noun)forge to form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal
5. (noun)forge to form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent
7. (noun)forge to make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate; to counterfeit, as, a signature, or a signed document
9. (verb)forge to move heavily and slowly, as a ship after the sails are furled; to work one's way, as one ship in outsailing another; -- used especially in the phrase to forge ahead