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forshook

forshook is the simple past 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 forshook

What is forshook the simple past of?
Forshook is the simple past of forshake.

Words near forshook in the dictionary

  1. Forshaw
  2. Forshee
  3. Forshees
  4. Forshey
  5. Forsheys
  6. forshook
  7. forshorten
  8. forshut
  9. forshuts
  10. forshutting
  11. Forsinard

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Adapted from Wiktionary: forshook (page history and authors); forshake (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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