"forfare" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: forfares [present, singular, third-person], forfaring [participle, present], forfared [past], forfore [past], forfared [participle, past], forfaren [participle, past]
Etymology: From Middle English forfaren, from Old English forfaran (“to pass away, perish, lose, destroy, ruin, cause to perish, intercept, obstruct”), from Proto-Germanic *frafaraną, equivalent to for- + fare. Cognate with Scots forfar (“to go amiss, decay, perish”), Old Frisian forfara (“to die”), German verfahren (“to use up, spend, lose one's way”), Old Danish forfare (“to perish”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|forfaren}} Middle English forfaren, {{inh|en|ang|forfaran|t=to pass away, perish, lose, destroy, ruin, cause to perish, intercept, obstruct}} Old English forfaran (“to pass away, perish, lose, destroy, ruin, cause to perish, intercept, obstruct”), {{inh|en|gem-pro|*frafaraną}} Proto-Germanic *frafaraną, {{prefix|en|for|fare}} for- + fare, {{cog|sco|forfar|t=to go amiss, decay, perish}} Scots forfar (“to go amiss, decay, perish”), {{cog|ofs|forfara|t=to die}} Old Frisian forfara (“to die”), {{cog|de|verfahren|t=to use up, spend, lose one's way}} German verfahren (“to use up, spend, lose one's way”), {{cog|gmq-oda|forfare|t=to perish}} Old Danish forfare (“to perish”) Head templates: {{en-verb|past2=forfore|past_ptc2=forfaren}} forfare (third-person singular simple present forfares, present participle forfaring, simple past forfared or forfore, past participle forfared or forfaren)
  1. (intransitive, dialectal or obsolete) To go to ruin; be destroyed; perish. Tags: dialectal, intransitive, obsolete
    Sense id: en-forfare-en-verb-dF7MANys Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with for- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 66 34 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with for-: 66 34
  2. (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To destroy; ruin. Tags: dialectal, obsolete, transitive
    Sense id: en-forfare-en-verb-EGdON6fm
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: forfairn

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