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† forˈwaste, v. Obs.
Also 6–7 forewaste. Pa. pple. 6 forwaste.
[f. for- prefix1 + waste v.]
trans. = waste v. in various senses; to lay waste; to use up, exhaust; to render emaciated or feeble; to spend wastefully.
1563Sackville Induct. Mirr. Mag. xi, A piteous wight, whom love had al forwaste. a1577Gascoigne Flowers, Jocasta Wks. (1587) 91 Then set aside these vaine fore⁓wasted words. 1580Sidney Arcadia (1622) 365 The rest both in face and apparell so forewasted, that they seemed to beare a great conformitie with the sauages. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. xi. 1 And their forwasted kingdom to repayre. 1630Lord Banians & Persees 31 To make their forewasted powers..to renew their vigour. |