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forshaking

forshaking is the present 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 forshaking

What is forshaking the present participle of?
Forshaking is the present participle of forshake.

Words near forshaking in the dictionary

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

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