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Forted vs Forged - What's the difference?

forted | forged |

As verbs the difference between forted and forged

is that forted is (fort) while forged is to force forward against opposition.

As adjectives the difference between forted and forged

is that forted is ensconced in or protected by a fort while forged is fake (as documents).

forted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (fort)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Ensconced in or protected by a fort.
  • * 1834 , David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of , Nebraska 1987, p. 104:
    • The fort was built right in the middle of a large old field, and in it the people had been forted so long and so quietly, that they didn't apprehend any danger at all, and had, therefore, become quite careless.

    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

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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.