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forfeiting

verb as in give up something in sacrifice

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Our response for eight years has been to allow China to pursue its interests aggressively, while forfeiting our own.

Chamberlain, of course, chose Rome over the object of his heart's ache, forfeiting love and dying a broken man.

He was alike capable of sacrificing all his feelings to worldly considerations or of forfeiting the world for a visionary caprice.

No man wins triumphs in that way, without forfeiting some palms of glory.

Do you remember forfeiting several thousand dollars to him one evening in a certain room?

M. Louis Blanc has certainly no idea of forfeiting either of these attractions by laying claim to the other.

Mr Graham himself frequently joined in both, without incurring the slightest danger of forfeiting respect by condescension.

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On this page you'll find 14 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to forfeiting, such as: relinquish, abandon, surrender, renounce, lose, and sacrifice.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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