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forleet

forleet is the alternative form of forlet.

forleet is the simple past of forlat.

Meaning of forlet

Verb

forlet (third-person singular simple present forlets, present participle forletting, simple past and past participle forlet)

  1. (UK, archaic, dialectal, transitive) To abandon; give up; leave; leave behind; forsake; desert; neglect.
    • to forlet your sins
  2. (Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive) To forget.

Meaning of forlat

Verb

forlat (third-person singular simple present forlats, present participle forlatting, simple past forleet or forlut, past participle forlatten or forlutten)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive) To deal a blow; hit out.

Forms of forleet

third-person singular presentforleets
present participleforleeting
past participleforleet
pastforleet

Questions about forleet

What is forleet the alternative form of?
Forleet is the alternative form of forlet.

Words near forleet in the dictionary

  1. forleads
  2. forleave
  3. forleaves
  4. forleaving
  5. forled
  6. forleet
  7. forleets
  8. forleft
  9. forlend
  10. forlending
  11. forlends

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Adapted from Wiktionary: forleet (page history and authors); forlet (page history and authors); forlat (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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