forwalk
English edit
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Etymology edit
From Middle English forwalken, equivalent to for- + walk.
Verb edit
forwalk (third-person singular simple present forwalks, present participle forwalking, simple past and past participle forwalked)
- (transitive) To walk (someone) excessively; weary with walking.
- 1815, Thomas Nash, Christ's tears over Jerusalem:
- […] they wear away with continuance, even as time doth wear and forewalk us; […]