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fortake

fortake verb: to take away; remove; deprive.

Verb

fortake (third-person singular simple present fortakes, present participle fortaking, simple past fortook, past participle fortaken)

  1. (transitive) To take away; remove; 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
    • In a slaughter wide they fell, woeful days of Bale came on; Famine-death fortook fortitude from men!1898, Stopford Augustus Brooke, English literature: from the beginning to the Norman conquest
  2. (UK, dialectal, transitive) To mistake; make a mistake.
  3. (UK, dialectal, transitive) To aim or deal a blow at; hit.

Forms of fortake

third-person singular presentfortakes
present participlefortaking
pastfortook
past participlefortaken
second-person singular present (archaic)fortakest
second-person singular past (archaic)fortookst
third-person singular present (archaic)fortaketh

Origin of fortake

From Middle English fortaken, equivalent to for- + take. Cognate with dialectal Norwegian fortaka (“to assail, assault”), Swedish förta (“to deprive, take away, deaden”).

Questions about fortake

What does fortake mean?
Fortake means to take away; remove; deprive.
What part of speech is fortake?
Fortake is a verb.
What is the past tense of fortake?
The past tense of fortake is fortook.

Words near fortake in the dictionary

  1. Fort Yukon
  2. Fort Zeelandia
  3. fort-da
  4. Fort-de-France
  5. Fort-Lamy
  6. fortake
  7. fortakest
  8. fortaketh
  9. Fortaleza
  10. fortalice
  11. fortalices

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