"forspend" meaning in English

See forspend in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /fɔː(ɹ)ˈspɛnd/ Forms: forspends [present, singular, third-person], forspending [participle, present], forspent [participle, past], forspent [past]
Rhymes: -ɛnd Etymology: From Middle English forspenden, from Old English forspendan (“to spend up, give out, squander, consume”), equivalent to for- + spend. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|forspenden}} Middle English forspenden, {{inh|en|ang|forspendan||to spend up, give out, squander, consume}} Old English forspendan (“to spend up, give out, squander, consume”), {{prefix|en|for|spend}} for- + spend Head templates: {{en-verb|forspends|forspending|forspent}} forspend (third-person singular simple present forspends, present participle forspending, simple past and past participle forspent)
  1. (transitive) To spend up; spend completely; exhaust, as by overexertion. Tags: transitive Synonyms: forespend [rare] Derived forms: forspent
    Sense id: en-forspend-en-verb-X6GfJ8C2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with for-

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for forspend meaning in English (2.0kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "forspenden"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English forspenden",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "forspendan",
        "4": "",
        "5": "to spend up, give out, squander, consume"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English forspendan (“to spend up, give out, squander, consume”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "for",
        "3": "spend"
      },
      "expansion": "for- + spend",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English forspenden, from Old English forspendan (“to spend up, give out, squander, consume”), equivalent to for- + spend.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "forspends",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forspending",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forspent",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forspent",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "forspends",
        "2": "forspending",
        "3": "forspent"
      },
      "expansion": "forspend (third-person singular simple present forspends, present participle forspending, simple past and past participle forspent)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with for-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "forspent"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "a. 1843, Robert Southey, (Inscription) at Borrosa\nA painful march, / Through twenty hours of night and day prolong'd, / Forespent the British troops."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To spend up; spend completely; exhaust, as by overexertion."
      ],
      "id": "en-forspend-en-verb-X6GfJ8C2",
      "links": [
        [
          "spend",
          "spend"
        ],
        [
          "exhaust",
          "exhaust"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To spend up; spend completely; exhaust, as by overexertion."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "rare"
          ],
          "word": "forespend"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/fɔː(ɹ)ˈspɛnd/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛnd"
    }
  ],
  "word": "forspend"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "forspent"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "forspenden"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English forspenden",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "forspendan",
        "4": "",
        "5": "to spend up, give out, squander, consume"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English forspendan (“to spend up, give out, squander, consume”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "for",
        "3": "spend"
      },
      "expansion": "for- + spend",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English forspenden, from Old English forspendan (“to spend up, give out, squander, consume”), equivalent to for- + spend.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "forspends",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forspending",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forspent",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forspent",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "forspends",
        "2": "forspending",
        "3": "forspent"
      },
      "expansion": "forspend (third-person singular simple present forspends, present participle forspending, simple past and past participle forspent)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 2-syllable words",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms derived from Middle English",
        "English terms derived from Old English",
        "English terms inherited from Middle English",
        "English terms inherited from Old English",
        "English terms prefixed with for-",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Rhymes:English/ɛnd",
        "Rhymes:English/ɛnd/2 syllables"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "a. 1843, Robert Southey, (Inscription) at Borrosa\nA painful march, / Through twenty hours of night and day prolong'd, / Forespent the British troops."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To spend up; spend completely; exhaust, as by overexertion."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "spend",
          "spend"
        ],
        [
          "exhaust",
          "exhaust"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To spend up; spend completely; exhaust, as by overexertion."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/fɔː(ɹ)ˈspɛnd/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛnd"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "forespend"
    }
  ],
  "word": "forspend"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.