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forwasting

forwasting is the present participle and gerund of forwaste.

Meaning of forwaste

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.

Questions about forwasting

What is forwasting the present participle and gerund of?
Forwasting is the present participle and gerund of forwaste.

Words near forwasting in the dictionary

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

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