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forwound

forwound verb: to wound or injure severely.

Verb

forwound (third-person singular simple present forwounds, present participle forwounding, simple past and past participle forwounded)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To wound or injure severely.
    • And Arthur was forwounded with a broad spear of slaughter; fifteen cruel wounds had he, in the least one might thrust two gloves.1894, Sir Mungo William MacCallum, Tennyson's Idylls of the King and Arthurian story from the XVIth century

Forms of forwound

third-person singular presentforwounds
present participleforwounding
past participleforwounded
pastforwounded

Origin of forwound

From Middle English forwounden, forwunden, from Old English forwundian (“to wound”), from Proto-West Germanic *frawundōn (“to wound, injure”), equivalent to for- + wound. Cognate with Dutch verwonden (“to injure, hurt, wound, gore”), German Low German verwunden, verwunnen (“to forwound”), German verwunden (“to wound, injure”).

Questions about forwound

What does forwound mean?
Forwound means to wound or injure severely.
What part of speech is forwound?
Forwound is a verb.
What is the past tense of forwound?
The past tense of forwound is forwounded.

Words near forwound in the dictionary

  1. forworking
  2. forworks
  3. forworn
  4. forworship
  5. forworth
  6. forwound
  7. forwounded
  8. forwounding
  9. forwounds
  10. forwrap
  11. forwrought

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