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forhale

forhale verb: to overhaul; overtake.

Verb

forhale (third-person singular simple present forhales, present participle forhaling, simple past and past participle forhaled)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To overhaul; overtake.

forhale meaning in Bengali

forhale in Bengali

পুঙ্খানুপুঙ্খ পরীক্ষা করা, পিছনে ফেলে এগিয়ে যাওয়া

Forms of forhale

third-person singular presentforhales
present participleforhaling
past participleforhaled
pastforhaled

Origin of forhale

From earlier forhail, equivalent to for- + hale. Compare Norwegian and Danish forhale (“to delay”), Swedish förhala (“to protract, prolong, retard”).

Questions about forhale

What does forhale mean?
Forhale means to overhaul; overtake.
What is forhale in Bengali?
Forhale in Bengali is পুঙ্খানুপুঙ্খ পরীক্ষা করা, পিছনে ফেলে এগিয়ে যাওয়া. See Forhale meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is forhale?
Forhale is a verb.
What is the past tense of forhale?
The past tense of forhale is forhaled.

Words near forhale in the dictionary

  1. Forgue
  2. Forgues
  3. forguilt
  4. Forgy
  5. Forgys
  6. forhale
  7. forhaled
  8. forhales
  9. forhaling
  10. Forhan
  11. forhang

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Adapted from Wiktionary: forhale (page history and authors); forhale (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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