forged

Etymology

adj

1. Fake (as documents); falsified.
   Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid. 2013-01, Brian Hayes, “Father of Fractals”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 62
   Forged identification documents were used to enter the building.
2. Fabricated by forging or at a forge, by working hot metal
   The blacksmith made an expertly forged horseshoe by beating the red hot metal with his hammer.

verb

1. past participle of forge. To force forward against opposition.
   He forged forward against the current, even as it tried to sweep him down river.