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Forshake vs Forshame - What's the difference?

forshake | forshame |

As verbs the difference between forshake and forshame

is that forshake is to shake off; rid or free oneself from while forshame is (obsolete) to be ashamed; be greatly ashamed.

forshake

English

Verb

  • To shake off; rid or free oneself from.
    • It is only at Carignano that she can forshake the prescribed role of wife/mother, a domesticated, servile woman. —Mithilesh K. Pandey.
    English words prefixed with for-

    forshame

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (forsham)
  • (obsolete) To be ashamed; be greatly ashamed.
  • (obsolete) To shame; bring reproach on.
  • To dare; presume; have the face to.