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English Dictionary: forfeited by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
forfeited
adj
  1. surrendered as a penalty [syn: confiscate, forfeit, forfeited]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Forfeit \For"feit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Forfeited}; p. pr. &
      vb. n. {Forfeiting}.] [OE. forfeten. See {Forfeit}, 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.
  
               [They] had forfeited their property by their crimes.
                                                                              --Burke.
  
               Undone and forfeited to cares forever!   --Shak.
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