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forwasted

forwasted adjective: laid waste, wasted.

Adjective

forwasted (comparative more forwasted, superlative most forwasted)

  1. (obsolete) Laid waste, wasted.
    • To thinke of those her captiue Parents deare, / And their forwasted kingdome to repaire […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of forwasted

comparativemore forwasted
superlativemost forwasted

Origin of forwasted

From forwaste + -ed.

Questions about forwasted

What does forwasted mean?
Forwasted means laid waste, wasted.
What part of speech is forwasted?
Forwasted is an adjective.

Words near forwasted in the dictionary

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

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