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forwake

forwake verb: to exhaust or tire out with excessive waking or watching.

Verb

forwake (third-person singular simple present forwakes, present participle forwaking, simple past and past participle forwaked)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To exhaust or tire out with excessive waking or watching.
    • He was forwept, he was forwaked.1390, John Gower, Confessio Amantis
    • And every one to rest himself betakes,
      Save thieves, and cares, and troubled minds that forwakes.2020, original 1594, William Shakespeare, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: The Comedy of Errors

Forms of forwake

third-person singular presentforwakes
present participleforwaking
past participleforwaked
pastforwaked

Origin of forwake

From Middle English forwaken, forwakien, equivalent to for- + wake.

Questions about forwake

What does forwake mean?
Forwake means to exhaust or tire out with excessive waking or watching.
What part of speech is forwake?
Forwake is a verb.
What is the past tense of forwake?
The past tense of forwake is forwaked.

Words near forwake in the dictionary

  1. foruming
  2. forumite
  3. forumites
  4. forumless
  5. forums
  6. forwake
  7. forwalk
  8. forwalked
  9. forwall
  10. forwander
  11. forwandered

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