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forfare

forfare verb: to go to ruin; be destroyed; perish.

Verb

forfare (third-person singular simple present forfares, present participle forfaring, simple past forfared or forfore, past participle forfared or forfore or forfaren)

  1. (dialectal, intransitive, obsolete) To go to ruin; be destroyed; perish.
  2. (dialectal, obsolete, transitive) To destroy; ruin.

forfare meaning in Bengali

forfare in Bengali

ধ্বংসের পথে যাওয়া, ধ্বংস হওয়া, মারা যাওয়া, ধ্বংস করা, নষ্ট করা

Forms of forfare

third-person singular presentforfares
present participleforfaring
pastforfared
pastforfore
past participleforfared
past participleforfore
past participleforfaren

Origin of forfare

From Middle English forfaren, from Old English forfaran (“to pass away, perish, lose, destroy, ruin, cause to perish, intercept, obstruct”), from Proto-Germanic *frafaraną, equivalent to for- + fare. Cognate with Scots forfar (“to go amiss, decay, perish”), Old Frisian forfara (“to die”), German verfahren (“to use up, spend, lose one's way”), Old Danish forfare (“to perish”).

Questions about forfare

What does forfare mean?
Forfare means to go to ruin; be destroyed; perish.
What is forfare in Bengali?
Forfare in Bengali is ধ্বংসের পথে যাওয়া, ধ্বংস হওয়া, মারা যাওয়া. See Forfare meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is forfare?
Forfare is a verb.
What is the past tense of forfare?
The past tense of forfare is forfared.

Words near forfare in the dictionary

  1. forfalture
  2. forfaltures
  3. Forfar
  4. Forfar bridie
  5. Forfar bridies
  6. forfare
  7. Forfarshire
  8. forfaulture
  9. forfeda
  10. forfeit
  11. forfeitability

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Adapted from Wiktionary: forfare (page history and authors); forfare (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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