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forwall

forwall verb: to boil away.

Verb

forwall (third-person singular simple present forwalls, present participle forwalling, simple past and past participle forwalled)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To boil away.

Forms of forwall

third-person singular presentforwalls
present participleforwalling
past participleforwalled
pastforwalled

Origin of forwall

From Middle English forwallen, from Old English forweallan (“to boil away”), equivalent to for- (“away, off”) + wall (“to boil”). Related to well.

Questions about forwall

What does forwall mean?
Forwall means to boil away.
What part of speech is forwall?
Forwall is a verb.
What is the past tense of forwall?
The past tense of forwall is forwalled.

Words near forwall in the dictionary

  1. forumless
  2. forums
  3. forwake
  4. forwalk
  5. forwalked
  6. forwall
  7. forwander
  8. forwandered
  9. forwandering
  10. forwanders
  11. forward

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