forshake

present singular third person forshakes · participle present forshaking · past forshook · participle past forshaken

1. ambitransitiverareTo shake off; rid or free oneself from.

   Then her tussles forshook to the ground.

   2022, John Karelis, The Legend Of The Gorilla 2: Bringing The Silver-Back

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   But meeting in a land foreign to almost everybody, they lived together like one family and one people forshaking their various speeches, habits, everything.

   1995, Sudhāṃśu Śekhara Tuṅga, Bengali and Other Related Dialects of South Assam, page 30

   The Mizos in general, and the Luseis in particular, have forshaken their traditional religion in favour of Christianity.

   1996, C. Nunthara, Mizoram: Society and Polity, page 35

   It is only at Carignano that she can forshake the prescribed role of wife/mother, a domesticated, servile woman.

   2004, Mithilesh K. Pandey, Writing the Female: Akademi Awarded Novels in English

   […] to forshake his Christian faith and to go to other people's religion. Mabior Riny Riak said he felt sorry to ^([sic]) his relatives for not knowing that Islam is a universal religion and that it is not confined to a particular race or people […]

   2006, Abdalla Keri Wani, Islam in Southern Sudan: Its Impact, Past, Present and Future, page 133

   It is so long since we forshook the usurped power of the bishop of Rome that these things seem very strange […]

   2019, Jeremy Black, England in the Age of Shakespeare, page 284