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forsaw

forsaw is the simple past of forsee.

Meaning of forsee

Verb

forsee (third-person singular simple present forsees, present participle forseeing, simple past forsaw, past participle forseen)

  1. (Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive) To neglect; overlook; disregard; despise.
    • Could I forsee the sunken rocks of life?1882, Victor Roy, A Masonic Poem by Harriet Annie Wilkins
  2. (Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive) To oversee; superintend; direct.

Questions about forsaw

What is forsaw the simple past of?
Forsaw is the simple past of forsee.

Words near forsaw in the dictionary

  1. forsakes
  2. forsakest
  3. forsaketh
  4. forsaking
  5. forsakings
  6. forsaw
  7. forsay
  8. forsaying
  9. forsays
  10. Forsbrook
  11. forscald

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Adapted from Wiktionary: forsaw (page history and authors); forsee (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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