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forstole

forstole is the simple past of forsteal.

Meaning of forsteal

Verb

forsteal (third-person singular simple present forsteals, present participle forstealing, simple past forstole, past participle forstolen)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To steal away, rob, deprive.
    • Be ye not willing to hoard to you gold hoards on earth, where rust and moth fortake it, and where thieves delve it and forsteal, […]1861, Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Spoon and sparrow

Questions about forstole

What is forstole the simple past of?
Forstole is the simple past of forsteal.

Words near forstole in the dictionary

  1. forsteritic
  2. Forstner
  3. Forstner bit
  4. Forstner bits
  5. Forstners
  6. forstole
  7. forstolen
  8. forstood
  9. forstop
  10. forstopped
  11. forstopping

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Adapted from Wiktionary: forstole (page history and authors); forsteal (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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