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forsay

UK/fəˈseɪ/US/fəɹˈseɪ/

forsay verb: to forbid; to renounce.

Verb

forsay (third-person singular simple present forsays, present participle forsaying, simple past and past participle forsaid)

  1. (archaic) to forbid; to renounce
    • worldly sovenance he must forsay1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Maye. Ægloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    abjure, disavow, forswear, deny, disclaim, disown, renounce, repudiate, wash one's hands of
  2. (archaic) to deny, gainsay
  3. (archaic) to forsake

forsay meaning in Bengali

forsay in Bengali

নিষিদ্ধ করা, পরিত্যাগ করা, অস্বীকার করা

Synonyms of forsay

Forms of forsay

third-person singular presentforsays
present participleforsaying
past participleforsaid
pastforsaid

Origin of forsay

From Middle English forsayen (“to renounce”), from Old English forseċġan (“to accuse, accuse falsely, slander, speak about, discourse on”), equivalent to for- + say. Cognate Dutch verzeggen (“to deny, forbid”), German Low German verseggen (“to refuse, deny”), German versagen (“to refuse, deny”), Swedish försäga (“to misspeak, say too much”). More at for-, say.

Words that rhyme with forsay

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Questions about forsay

What does forsay mean?
Forsay means to forbid; to renounce.
What is forsay in Bengali?
Forsay in Bengali is নিষিদ্ধ করা, পরিত্যাগ করা, অস্বীকার করা. See Forsay meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is forsay?
Forsay is a verb.
How do you pronounce forsay?
Forsay is pronounced /fəˈseɪ/ (UK).
What is the past tense of forsay?
The past tense of forsay is forsaid.

Words near forsay in the dictionary

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

Source and license

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