† forwoundv.
Obsolete.
transitive. To wound sorely.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > wound > wound seriously
forwoundOE
through-woundc1175
undo1530
spoil1577
serve?1794
to fuck up1965
OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. an. 882 & þa wæron miclum forslægene & for wundode ær hie on hond eodon.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 81 He com bi þis forwundede mon.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 7342 Hors forð-riht þer for-wundede [c1300 Oho for-wondede] Catiger.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 1287 Þat folc vel doun vorwounded & aslawe in eiþer side.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 3686 Ȝour mene..þat feynt ar for-fouten in feld & for-wounded.
Derivatives
forˈwounded adj.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [adjective] > wounded > seriously or mortally wounded
forwoundedc1400
forshendc1475
c1400 Rom. Rose 1830 Upon my feet I roos up than Feble, as a forwoundid man.
1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) vi. xv. 258/2 He was so forwounded that by waye of manhode..nedely he muste dye.
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