forwaste en · VERB
Etymology
From for- + waste.
Meanings
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(obsolete, transitive) To waste; waste completely; lay waste to; desolate.
Yet shortly he renounst the vassallage Of Rome againe , who hether hastly sent Vespasian , that with great spoile and rage Forwasted all
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- (obsolete, transitive) To use up; exhaust; render emaciated or feeble; spend wastefully.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| forwasted | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| forwasted | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| forewaste | alternative | lexicographic | |
| forwasting | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| forwastes | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |