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forelift

forelift verb: to lift up in front.

Verb

forelift (third-person singular simple present forelifts, present participle forelifting, simple past and past participle forelifted)

  1. (obsolete) To lift up in front.
    • So dreadfully he towards him did pas, / Forelifting up aloft his speckled brest […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of forelift

third-person singular presentforelifts
present participleforelifting
past participleforelifted
pastforelifted

Origin of forelift

From fore- + lift.

Questions about forelift

What does forelift mean?
Forelift means to lift up in front.
What part of speech is forelift?
Forelift is a verb.
What is the past tense of forelift?
The past tense of forelift is forelifted.

Words near forelift in the dictionary

  1. forelevel
  2. forelevels
  3. forelie
  4. forelies
  5. forelife
  6. forelift
  7. forelifted
  8. forelifting
  9. forelifts
  10. forelight
  11. forelights

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