forwaste

present singular third person forwastes · participle present forwasting · participle past forwasted · past forwasted · alternative forewaste

1. obsoletetransitiveTo waste; waste completely; lay waste to; desolate.

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

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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   Or their’s, who, dol’d in scanty bands afar, Wag’d without hope the disproportion’d war, And cheerly still, and patient of distress, Led their forwasted files on numbers numberless!

   1809, Reginald Heber, Europe: Lines on the Present War, London: J. Hatchard, →OL, page 22

   O Father Jove, if e’er in Argos’ wheat-producing soil On the fat thighs of sheep and oxen thou with gracious smile Didst look, and to our vows didst grant from war’s forwasting toil

   1866, John Stuart Blackie, Homer and the Iliad, volume III, Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, →OL, page 96

2. obsoletetransitiveTo use up; exhaust; render emaciated or feeble; spend wastefully.