Forja

n. forge; foundry; forging

v. forge, fashion; trump up

n. forge, smithy; hearth

v. fudge, coin; contrive, fabricate; feign, forge; invent; manipulate; manufacture; wangle

to forge

forge

= forge.
Ex: Greeks and Egyptians first used bellows before 1500 B.C to heat up furnaces in forges.

= fashion, forge.
Ex: The preliminary discussions and proposals which led up to the AACR, did start out with an attempt to fashion an ideology, a philosophical context, for those rules.
Ex: This article calls on libraries to forge a renewed national commitment to cooperate in the building of a national information network for scholarly communications.
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* forjar el futuro = forge + the future.
* forjarse una identidad = forge + identity.
* idea + forjar = idea + shape.

Forjar
Forge

Drop forge, drop hammer, drop press