forfeit
/ˈfɔɹ.fɪt/ verbo C1En español: desmerecer de, desmerecerse de, rendirse
- To suffer the loss of something by wrongdoing or non-compliance · He forfeited his last chance of an early release from jail by repeatedly attacking another inmate.
- To lose a contest, game, match, or other form of competition by voluntary withdrawal, by failing to attend or participate, or by violation of the rules · Because only nine players were present, the football team was forced to forfeit the game.
- To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.
- To fail to keep an obligation.
- Of government officials: to legally remove property from its previous owners.
He/she/it forfeits · Pasado forfeited · Participio pasado forfeited · Forma en -ing forfeiting
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Do not attribute to me more than I deserve, sire, that your majesty may never have occasion to recall the first opinion you have been pleased to form of me.” The minister of police thanked the young man by an eloquent look, and Villefort understood that he had succeeded in his design; that is to say, that without forfeiting the gratitude of the king, he had made a friend of one on whom, in case of necessity, he might rely.
If you leave, you forfeit your whole position forever.
If you fail me, then my honour as well as my position are forever forfeited.
Darcy chose to doubt it--or to treat it as a merely conditional recommendation, and to assert that I had forfeited all claim to it by extravagance, imprudence, in short, anything or nothing.
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