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forwaste

forwaste verb: to waste; waste completely; lay waste to; desolate.

Verb

forwaste (third-person singular simple present forwastes, present participle forwasting, simple past and past participle forwasted)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To waste; waste completely; lay waste to; desolate.
    • Yet shortly he renounst the vassallage
      Of Rome againe , who hether hastly sent
      Vespasian , that with great spoile and rage
      Forwasted all1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To use up; exhaust; render emaciated or feeble; spend wastefully.

Forms of forwaste

third-person singular presentforwastes
present participleforwasting
past participleforwasted
pastforwasted
alternative formforewaste

Origin of forwaste

From for- + waste.

Questions about forwaste

What does forwaste mean?
Forwaste means to waste; waste completely; lay waste to; desolate.
What part of speech is forwaste?
Forwaste is a verb.
What is the past tense of forwaste?
The past tense of forwaste is forwasted.

Words near forwaste in the dictionary

  1. forwards rolls
  2. forwarn
  3. forwarned
  4. forwarning
  5. forwarns
  6. forwaste
  7. forwasted
  8. forwastes
  9. forwasting
  10. forwax
  11. forwaxed

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