forge

Meaning

Noun

1. A furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
2. A workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
3. The act of beating or working iron or steel.
4. A Web-based collaborative platform for developing and sharing software.

Verb

1. To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
2. To form or create with concerted effort.
3. To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.
4. To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.

Verb

1. To move forward heavily and slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually but steadily; to proceed towards a goal in the face of resistance or difficulty.
2. To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.

Synonyms

counterfeit

smithy

fake

falsify

hammer

🔨

work

form

furnace

fabricate

mold

mould

devise

imitate

copy

hammer out

shape

contrive

invent

make

bellows

fashion

formulate

create

farriery

excogitate

build

feign

sham

pound

💷

duplicate

stithy

spurt

adulterate

concoct

hit

discipline

smithing

spirt

construct

reproduce

blacksmith’s shop

forging

forgery

simulate

poke

hearth

impersonate

induce

ironworks

lance

lead

lie

load

lunge

make up

mimic

modify

monkey

🐒

nosedive

originate

perfect

play

plummet

plunge

plunk

polish

🇵🇱

pommel

pretend

produce

progress

provoke

pug

raise

ram

🐏

regurgitate

revise

revitalize

rewrite

rush

scarify

scratch

set

set up

shoot

shop

smith

smithery

spear

spit

stab

stoop

strike

swage

swoop

tell a lie

temper

till

trace

train

🚋

work out

work up

wrought

zoom

beat metal

blacksmith shop

planish

shower down

abuse

hit with a hammer

hammer home

forge hearth

smith forging

coppersmith’s shop

forge work

adopt

model, to

advance

ape

attack

👊

bang

barge

bear down

beat

blacksmith

blacksmithing

bring about

buck

buffet

build up

burst

carry

cause

conceive

cook

🧑‍🍳

copycat

crash

crush

cultivate

dash

💨

develop

do

draw

dress

👗

drill

drive home

drum

🥁

edit

elaborate

engender

establish

evolve

exercise

exteriorize

fabrication

falsification

fib

fly by

garble

generate

harden

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fɔːd͡ʒ/

Etymology

From Middle English forge, from Old French forge, early Old French faverge, from Latin fabrica (“workshop”), from faber (“workman in hard materials, smith”) (genitive fabri). Cognate with Franco-Provençal favèrge. Doublet of fabric.