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FORFEIT
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Traducere în limba română
forfeit I. substantiv
1. pierdere a dreptului (asupra unui feud etc.).
2. pierdere.
3. pedeapsă, penalitate, sancţiune; amendă.
4. confiscare.
5. obiect confiscat.
6. gaj; (pl.) joc cu gajuri.
forfeit II. adjectiv
(to) confiscat, pierdut (în favoarea cuiva).
forfeit III. verb tranzitiv
1. a pierde, a pierde dreptul de / la.
2. a fi obligat să plătească o amendă pentru.
3. (înv.) a jigni, a călca, a încălca.
◊ his life was forfeited trebuia să plătească cu viaţa.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
“The match is forfeit.”
(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
What Edward had done to forfeit the right of eldest son, might have puzzled many people to find out; and what Robert had done to succeed to it, might have puzzled them still more.
(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)
I have blamed myself enough; my life's forfeit anyway, and I should have been dead by now if Silver hadn't stood for me; and doctor, believe this, I can die—and I dare say I deserve it—but what I fear is torture. If they come to torture me—
(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)