fortake en · VERB
Etymology
From Middle English fortaken, equivalent to for- + take. Cognate with dialectal Norwegian fortaka (“to assail, assault”), Swedish förta (“to deprive, take away, deaden”).
Meanings
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(transitive) To take away; remove; deprive.
In a slaughter wide they fell, woeful days of Bale came on; Famine-death fortook fortitude from men!
1898, Stopford Augustus Brooke, English literature: from the beginning to the Norman conquest:Be ye not willing to hoard to you gold hoards on earth, where rust and moth fortake it, and where thieves delve it and forsteal, [...]
1861, Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Spoon and sparrow:
- (UK, dialectal, transitive) To mistake; make a mistake.
- (UK, dialectal, transitive) To aim or deal a blow at; hit.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| fortakes | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| fortaken | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| fortaking | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| fortake | Number=Plur, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| fortake | VerbForm=Inf | lexicographic | |
| fortake | Mood=Sub, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| fortake | Number=Sing, Person=1, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| fortake | Mood=Imp, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| fortake | Number=Sing, Person=2, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| fortookst | Number=Sing, Person=2, Tense=Past | archaic | lexicographic |
| fortakest | Number=Sing, Person=2, Tense=Pres | archaic | lexicographic |
| fortook | Number=Plur, Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| fortook | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| fortook | Number=Sing, Person=2, Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| fortook | Mood=Sub, Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| fortook | Number=Sing, Person=1, Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| fortook | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| fortaketh | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | archaic | lexicographic |