Alternative forms

• forewaste

Etymology

From for- +‎ wasteCategory:English terms prefixed with for-#WASTE.

Verb

forwaste (third-person singular simple present forwastes, present participle forwasting, simple past and past participle forwasted)Category:English lemmas#FORWASTECategory:English verbs#FORWASTECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#FORWASTECategory:Pages with entries#FORWASTECategory:Pages with 1 entry#FORWASTE

1. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#FORWASTE, obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#FORWASTE) To waste; waste completely; lay waste to; desolate.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Yet shortly he renounst the vassallage
     Of Rome againe , who hether hastly sent
     Vespasian , that with great spoile and rage
     Forwasted all

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2. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#FORWASTE, obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#FORWASTE) To use up; exhaust; render emaciated or feeble; spend wastefully.

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