forwander

F4O1R1W4A1N1D2E1R1

verb

To wander until weary; wander far and wide.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

verbforwander (third-person singular simple present forwanders, present participle forwandering, simple past and past participle forwandered)

present singular third person forwanders · participle present forwandering · participle past forwandered · past forwandered

  1. UKdialectalintransitiveTo wander until weary; wander far and wide.

    Ah, I am full weary, lief, let me sleep, Forwandered and walked in this forest.

    2009, Richard Beadle, Pamela M. King, York Mystery Plays
  2. UKdialectaltransitiveTo weary with wandering; cause to wander until weary.

    The Lent term had pulled me down, a week of modest enjoyment thereafter in town had finished the work; and I drank in the sharp moorish air like a thirsty man who has been forwandered among deserts.

    1899, John Buchan, No Man's Land
    1 more example

    […] His courage, His purity, His meekness; His daily wakefulness to God's voice, the swiftness and brilliance of His speech for others, His silence under His own torments; His resorts—among the bruised, the prisoners, the forwandered of Israel, […]

    1897, Sir George Adam Smith, The book of Isaiah

Origin

  1. Middle Englishforwandrien
  2. Englishforwander

From Middle English forwandrien, equivalent to for- + wander.

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Chicago

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