forwaste
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editforwaste (third-person singular simple present forwastes, present participle forwasting, simple past and past participle forwasted)
- (transitive, obsolete) To waste; waste completely; lay waste to; desolate.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Yet shortly he renounst the vassallage
Of Rome againe , who hether hastly sent
Vespasian , that with great spoile and rage
Forwasted all
- (transitive, obsolete) To use up; exhaust; render emaciated or feeble; spend wastefully.