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forsend

forsend is the alternative form of foresend.

Meaning of foresend

Verb

foresend (third-person singular simple present foresends, present participle foresending, simple past and past participle foresent)

  1. (transitive) To send before; send beforehand.
    • I presume to foresend my wife's maid with her linen, as the state of the city occasioneth me thereunto by increase of deaths, which many fear and flee.1885, Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Walter Rye, Report on the manuscripts of the family of Gawdy

Forms of forsend

third-person singular presentforsends
present participleforsending
past participleforsent
pastforsent

Questions about forsend

What is forsend the alternative form of?
Forsend is the alternative form of foresend.

Words near forsend in the dictionary

  1. Forsen
  2. forsench
  3. forsenched
  4. forsenches
  5. forsenching
  6. forsend
  7. forsending
  8. forsends
  9. Forsens
  10. forsent
  11. forset

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Adapted from Wiktionary: forsend (page history and authors); foresend (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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