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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

forwake en · VERB

Etymology

From Middle English forwaken, forwakien, equivalent to for- + wake.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To exhaust or tire out with excessive waking or watching.
    • And every one to rest himself betakes, Save thieves, and cares, and troubled minds that forwakes. 2020, original 1594, William Shakespeare, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: The Comedy of Errors:
    • He was forwept, he was forwaked. 1390, John Gower, Confessio Amantis:

Forms

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forwaking Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
forwakes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
forwaked Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
forwaked Tense=Past lexicographic