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Nouns (3)

forge

n. furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping

forge, smithy

n. a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering

Verbs (13)

forge

v. move ahead steadily; "He forged ahead"

forge, fake, counterfeit

v. make a copy of with the intent to deceive; "he faked the signature"; "they counterfeited dollar bills"; "She forged a Green Card"

forge, spurt, spirt

v. move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy

invent, contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate, forge

v. come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light"

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Fuzzynyms (130)

dissemble, pretend, act

v. behave unnaturally or affectedly; "She's just acting"

perform

v. give a performance (of something); "Horowitz is performing at Carnegie Hall tonight"; "We performed a popular Gilbert and Sullivan opera"

fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook, wangle, misrepresent

v. tamper, with the purpose of deception; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data"

plagiarize, plagiarise, lift

v. take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property

manufacture

v. produce naturally; "this gland manufactures a specific substance only"

fashion, forge

v. make out of components (often in an improvising manner); "She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks"

falsify, distort, garble, warp

v. make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story

reenact

v. enact or perform again; "They reenacted the battle of Princeton"

imitate

v. make a reproduction or copy of

sophisticate, doctor, doctor up

v. alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive; "Sophisticate rose water with geraniol"

abuse

v. use wrongly or improperly or excessively; "Her husband often abuses alcohol"; "while she was pregnant, she abused drugs"

disguise, mask

v. make unrecognizable; "The herb masks the garlic taste"; "We disguised our faces before robbing the bank"

camouflage

v. disguise by camouflaging; exploit the natural surroundings to disguise something; "The troops camouflaged themselves before they went into enemy territory"

misrepresent, belie

v. represent falsely; "This statement misrepresents my intentions"

pirate

v. copy illegally; of published material

hijack

v. seize control of; "they hijacked the judicial process"

loot, plunder

v. take illegally; of intellectual property; "This writer plundered from famous authors"

plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray

v. steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"

reproduce

v. make a copy or equivalent of; "reproduce the painting"

raise, erect, rear, set up, put up

v. construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn"

retroflex, replicate

v. bend or turn backward

imitate

v. appear like, as in behavior or appearance; "Life imitate art"

improvise, extemporize

v. manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand; "after the hurricane destroyed our house, we had to improvise for weeks"

make, pretend, make believe

v. represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like; "She makes like an actress"

appear

v. appear as a character on stage or appear in a play, etc.; "Gielgud appears briefly in this movie"; "She appeared in `Hamlet' on the London stage"

appear, come along

v. come into being or existence, or appear on the scene; "Then the computer came along and changed our lives"; "Homo sapiens appeared millions of years ago"

seem

v. appear to one's own mind or opinion; "I seem to be misunderstood by everyone"; "I can't seem to learn these Chinese characters"

plunge

v. dash violently or with great speed or impetuosity; "She plunged at it eagerly"

push

v. sell or promote the sale of (illegal goods such as drugs); "The guy hanging around the school is pushing drugs"

push, crowd

v. approach a certain age or speed; "She is pushing fifty"

dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash, shoot

v. run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the yard"

lunge, hurl, hurtle, thrust

v. make a thrusting forward movement

submerge, submerse

v. sink below the surface; go under or as if under water

jump, leap, jump off

v. jump down from an elevated point; "the parachutist didn't want to jump"; "every year, hundreds of people jump off the Golden Gate bridge"; "the widow leapt into the funeral pyre"

shoot, tear, charge, buck, shoot down

v. move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office"

well, swell

v. come up, as of a liquid; "Tears well in her eyes"; "the currents well up"

make, create

v. make or cause to be or to become; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor"

trump up, concoct

v. invent; "trump up charges"

formulate

v. prepare according to a formula

raise, erect, rear, set up, put up

v. construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn"

produce, bring about, give rise to

v. cause to happen, occur or exist; "This procedure produces a curious effect"; "The new law gave rise to many complaints"; "These chemicals produce a noxious vapor"; "the new President must bring about a change in the health care system"

envision, foresee

v. picture to oneself; imagine possible; "I cannot envision him as President"

manufacture

v. create or produce in a mechanical way; "This novelist has been manufacturing his books following his initial success"

blueprint, draft, draught

v. make a blueprint of

prepare

v. lead up to and soften by sounding the dissonant note in it as a consonant note in the preceding chord; "prepare the discord in bar 139"

fashion, forge

v. make out of components (often in an improvising manner); "She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks"

originate

v. begin a trip at a certain point, as of a plane, train, bus, etc.; "The flight originates in Calcutta"

think

v. imagine or visualize; "Just think--you could be rich one day!"; "Think what a scene it must have been!"

coin

v. make up; "coin phrases or words"

introduce

v. bring in or establish in a new place or environment; "introduce a rule"; "introduce exotic fruits"

mint, coin, strike

v. form by stamping, punching, or printing; "strike coins"; "strike a medal"

stamp

v. crush or grind with a heavy instrument; "stamp fruit extract the juice"

draft, outline

v. draw up an outline or sketch for something; "draft a speech"

frame, compose, draw up

v. make up plans or basic details for; "frame a policy"

write, compose, pen, indite

v. produce a literary work; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels"

bring about

v. cause to move into the opposite direction; "they brought about the boat when they saw a storm approaching"

plot

v. devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet); "the writer is plotting a new novel"

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