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forwork

forwork

English

Verb

forwork (third-person singular simple present forworks, present participle forworking, simple past and past participle forworked or forwrought)

  1. (transitive) To forfeit (a possession, privilege, etc.); ruin (oneself) by one's own conduct.
  2. (transitive) To obstruct; barricade; block.
    • 1881, Grant Allen, Early Britain:
      And Æthelwold sat within the ham, with the men that to him had bowed, and he had forwrought [obstructed] all the gates in, and said that he would either there live or there lie.
  3. (transitive) To do wrong to; injure; scathe.
  4. (transitive) To overwork; exhaust with toil.
    • 1889, St. John's College (University of Cambridge), The Eagle:
      And toiling so, well-nigh forwrought, She prayed full fervently; [...]