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Forged vs Fabricated - What's the difference?

forged | fabricated |

As adjectives the difference between forged and fabricated

is that forged is fake (as documents) while fabricated is constructed or assembled.

As verbs the difference between forged and fabricated

is that forged is past participle of lang=en To force forward against opposition while fabricated is past tense of fabricate.

forged

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Fake (as documents).
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-01
    • , author=Brian Hayes , title=Father of Fractals , volume=101, issue=1, page=62 , magazine= citation , passage=Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.}}
    Forged identification documents were used to enter the building.
  • Fabricated by forging or at a forge, by working hot metal
    • The blacksmith made an expertly forged horseshoe by beating the red hot metal with his hammer.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (head)
  • To force forward against opposition.
    • He forged forward against the current, even as it tried to sweep him down river.

    fabricated

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (fabricate)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • constructed or assembled
  • false in the sense of made-up, constructed