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frover

frover verb: to comfort; solace.

Verb

frover (third-person singular simple present frovers, present participle frovering, simple past and past participle frovered)

  1. (dialectal) To comfort; solace.

Forms of frover

third-person singular presentfrovers
present participlefrovering
past participlefrovered
pastfrovered

Origin of frover

From Middle English frovre, frofre (“comfort”), from Old English frōfor (“consolation, joy, refuge, compensation, help, benefit”), from Proto-West Germanic *frōbru (“solace”), from Proto-Indo-European *trep-, *terp- (“to have good food, prosper, satiate, enjoy”). Cognate with Old Saxon frōvra, frōfra (“consolation, comfort, help”), Old High German fluobara (“consolation, comfort, help, assistance”).

Questions about frover

What does frover mean?
Frover means to comfort; solace.
What part of speech is frover?
Frover is a verb.
What is the past tense of frover?
The past tense of frover is frovered.

Words near frover in the dictionary

  1. frousy
  2. frouziest
  3. frouzily
  4. frouzy
  5. frovatriptan
  6. frover
  7. frow
  8. froward
  9. frowardly
  10. frowardness
  11. frowardnesses

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