forwound

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verb

To wound or injure severely.

OriginMiddle English forwounden ← Old English forwundian ← Proto-West Germanic *frawundōn →
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Meanings

verbforwound (third-person singular simple present forwounds, present participle forwounding, simple past and past participle forwounded)

present singular third person forwounds · participle present forwounding · participle past forwounded · past forwounded

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo wound or injure severely.

    And Arthur was forwounded with a broad spear of slaughter; fifteen cruel wounds had he, in the least one might thrust two gloves.

    1894, Sir Mungo William MacCallum, Tennyson's Idylls of the King and Arthurian story from the XVIth century

Origin

  1. Proto-West Germanic*frawundōn“to wound, injure”
  2. Old Englishforwundian“to wound”
  3. Middle Englishforwounden
  4. Englishforwound

From Middle English forwounden, forwunden, from Old English forwundian (“to wound”), from Proto-West Germanic *frawundōn (“to wound, injure”), equivalent to for- + wound. Cognate with Dutch verwonden (“to injure, hurt, wound, gore”), German Low German verwunden, verwunnen (“to forwound”), German verwunden (“to wound, injure”).

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forwound. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/forwound

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “forwound,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/forwound.

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