Word Meaning

forfeit definition and meaning

n. Injury; wrong; mischief.
n. A thing forfeit or forfeited; what is or may be taken from one in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, offense, neglect of duty, or breach of contract; hence, a fine; a mulct; a penalty; as, he who murders pays the forfeit of his life.
n. Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine; -- whence the game of forfeits.
n. Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.
n. To lose, or lose the right to, by some error, fault, offense, or crime; to render one's self by misdeed liable to be deprived of; to alienate the right to possess, by some neglect or crime; as, to forfeit an estate by treason; to forfeit reputation by a breach of promise; -- with to before the one acquiring what is forfeited.
v. i. To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.
v. i. To fail to keep an obligation.
p. p. / a. In the condition of being forfeited; subject to alienation.

Crossword clues for forfeit

- Cockney’s fourth, it should be said, is a sacrifice
- Give up or surrender something
- Lose by some error
- Surrender