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fortook

fortook is the simple past of fortake.

Meaning of fortake

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
  2. (UK, dialectal, transitive) To mistake; make a mistake.
  3. (UK, dialectal, transitive) To aim or deal a blow at; hit.

Questions about fortook

What is fortook the simple past of?
Fortook is the simple past of fortake.

Words near fortook in the dictionary

  1. Fortnums
  2. fortochka
  3. fortochkas
  4. Forton
  5. Fortons
  6. fortook
  7. FORTRAN
  8. Fortranlike
  9. fortravel
  10. fortread
  11. fortress

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fortook (page history and authors); fortake (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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