forshake

forshake verb: to shake off; rid or free oneself from.

Verb

forshake (third-person singular simple present forshakes, present participle forshaking, simple past forshook, past participle forshaken)

(ambitransitive, rare) To shake off; rid or free oneself from.
- But meeting in a land foreign to almost everybody, they lived together like one family and one people forshaking their various speeches, habits, everything.1995, Sudhāṃśu Śekhara Tuṅga, Bengali and Other Related Dialects of South Assam, page 30
- The Mizos in general, and the Luseis in particular, have forshaken their traditional religion in favour of Christianity.1996, C. Nunthara, Mizoram: Society and Polity, page 35

It is only at Carignano that she can forshake the prescribed role of wife/mother, a domesticated, servile woman.2004, Mithilesh K. Pandey, Writing the Female: Akademi Awarded Novels in English:
[…] to forshake his Christian faith and to go to other people's religion.2006, Abdalla Keri Wani, Islam in Southern Sudan: Its Impact, Past, Present and Future, page 133:

third-person singular present	forshakes
present participle	forshaking
past	forshook
past participle	forshaken

From Middle English forschaken, equivalent to for- + shake. Likely influenced by or mistaken as an error for forsake.

What does forshake mean?: Forshake means to shake off; rid or free oneself from.
How do you use forshake in a sentence?: It is only at Carignano that she can forshake the prescribed role of wife/mother, a domesticated, servile woman.
What part of speech is forshake?: Forshake is a verb.
What is the past tense of forshake?: The past tense of forshake is forshook.

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