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forwound en · VERB

Etymology

From Middle English forwounden, forwunden, from Old English forwundian (“to wound”), from Proto-West Germanic *frawundōn (“to wound, injure”), equivalent to for- + wound. Cognate with Dutch verwonden (“to injure, hurt, wound, gore”), German Low German verwunden, verwunnen (“to forwound”), German verwunden (“to wound, injure”).

Meanings

1. (obsolete, transitive) To wound or injure severely.
   • And Arthur was forwounded with a broad spear of slaughter; fifteen cruel wounds had he, in the least one might thrust two gloves. 1894, Sir Mungo William MacCallum, Tennyson's Idylls of the King and Arthurian story from the XVIth century:

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