noun injury; wrong; mischief.
2. forfeit ·vi to fail to keep an obligation.
3. forfeit (·p.p. / ·adj) in the condition of being forfeited; subject to alienation.
4. forfeit ·noun lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.
5. forfeit ·vi to be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.
6. forfeit ·noun something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine;
whence the game of forfeits.
7. forfeit ·noun a thing forfeit or forfeited; what is or may be taken from one in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, offense, neglect of duty, or breach of contract; hence, a fine; a mulct; a penalty; as, he who murders pays the forfeit of his life.
8. forfeit ·noun 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.