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forshaken

forshaken is the past participle of forshake.

Meaning of forshake

Verb

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

  1. (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

Questions about forshaken

What is forshaken the past participle of?
Forshaken is the past participle of forshake.

Words near forshaken in the dictionary

  1. forsets
  2. forsetting
  3. Forsgren
  4. Forsgrens
  5. forshake
  6. forshaken
  7. forshakes
  8. forshaking
  9. forshame
  10. forshamed
  11. forshames

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