forlese

Meanings

verbforlese (third-person singular simple present forleses, present participle forlesing, simple past forlore, past participle forlorn)

present singular third person forleses · participle present forlesing · past forlore · participle past forlorn · alternative forleese

obsoletetransitiveTo abandon, forsake.
Soone as they bene arriv'd upon the brim / Of the Rich Strond, their charets they forlore […]
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see

lose

Origin

Proto-Germanic*fraleusaną
Old Englishforlēosan“to lose, abandon, let go, destroy, ruin”
Middle Englishforlesen
Englishforlese

From Middle English forlesen, from Old English forlēosan (“to lose, abandon, let go, destroy, ruin”), from Proto-Germanic *fraleusaną. Equivalent to for- + lese. Cognate with Scots forlore (“to lose”), Dutch verliezen (“to lose”), German verlieren (“to lose”), Swedish förlisa (“to be lost”), Swedish förlora (“to lose”).

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