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forewaste

forewaste is the alternative form of forwaste.

Meaning of forwaste

Verb

forwaste (third-person singular simple present forwastes, present participle forwasting, simple past and past participle forwasted)

  1. (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 all1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To use up; exhaust; render emaciated or feeble; spend wastefully.

Forms of forewaste

third-person singular presentforewastes
present participleforewasting
past participleforewasted
pastforewasted

Origin of forewaste

From fore- + waste.

Questions about forewaste

What is forewaste the alternative form of?
Forewaste is the alternative form of forwaste.

Words near forewaste in the dictionary

  1. forewarneth
  2. forewarning
  3. forewarningly
  4. forewarnings
  5. forewarns
  6. forewaste
  7. forewatch
  8. forewatches
  9. forewater
  10. forewaters
  11. foreway

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