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Forger vs Forged - What's the difference?

forger | forged |

As a noun forger

is person who falsifies documents with intent to defraud, eg, to create a false will.

As an adjective forged is

fake (as documents).

As a verb forged is

to force forward against opposition.

forger

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Person who falsifies documents with intent to defraud, eg, to create a false will.
  • Person who forges metals.

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    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.

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    Verb

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