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forwander en · VERB

Etymology

From Middle English forwandrien, equivalent to for- + wander.

Meanings

1. (UK, dialectal, intransitive) To wander until weary; wander far and wide.
   • Ah, I am full weary, lief, let me sleep, Forwandered and walked in this forest. 2009, Richard Beadle, Pamela M. King, York Mystery Plays:
2. (UK, dialectal, transitive) To weary with wandering; cause to wander until weary.
   • The Lent term had pulled me down, a week of modest enjoyment thereafter in town had finished the work; and I drank in the sharp moorish air like a thirsty man who has been forwandered among deserts. 1899, John Buchan, No Man's Land:
   • […] His courage, His purity, His meekness; His daily wakefulness to God's voice, the swiftness and brilliance of His speech for others, His silence under His own torments; His resorts—among the bruised, the prisoners, the forwandered of Israel, […] 1897, Sir George Adam Smith, The book of Isaiah:

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