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forweary

forweary verb: to weary utterly; tire out.

Verb

forweary (third-person singular simple present forwearies, present participle forwearying, simple past and past participle forwearied)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To weary utterly; tire out.
    • Forwearied with my sportes, I did alight
      From loftie steed, and downe to sleepe me layd1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book IX, Canto XIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To become wearied.

Adjective

forweary (comparative more forweary, superlative most forweary)

  1. (obsolete) Excessively weary; exhausted with fatigue.

Forms of forweary

Verb
third-person singular presentforwearies
present participleforwearying
past participleforwearied
pastforwearied
Adjective
comparativemore forweary
superlativemost forweary

Origin of forweary

From Middle English forwerien, equivalent to for- + weary.

From Middle English forwery, equivalent to for- (“very, excessively”) + weary.

Questions about forweary

What does forweary mean?
Forweary means to weary utterly; tire out.
What part of speech is forweary?
Forweary can be a verb or an adjective.
What is the past tense of forweary?
The past tense of forweary is forwearied.

Words near forweary in the dictionary

  1. forweans
  2. forwear
  3. forwearied
  4. forwearies
  5. forwears
  6. forweary
  7. forwearying
  8. forweep
  9. forwelk
  10. forwent
  11. forwhy

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