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forlore

forlore is the simple past of forlese.

Meaning of forlese

Verb

forlese (third-person singular simple present forleses, present participle forlesing, simple past forlore, past participle forlorn)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To abandon, forsake.
    • Soone as they bene arriv'd upon the brim / Of the Rich Strond, their charets they forlore […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about forlore

What is forlore the simple past of?
Forlore is the simple past of forlese.

Words near forlore in the dictionary

  1. forlong
  2. forlonged
  3. forlonging
  4. forlongs
  5. forloppin
  6. forlore
  7. forlorn
  8. forlorn hope
  9. forlorn hopes
  10. forlorne
  11. forlorner

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Adapted from Wiktionary: forlore (page history and authors); forlese (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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