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Forwake vs Fortake - What's the difference?

forwake | fortake |

As verbs the difference between forwake and fortake

is that forwake is (obsolete) to exhaust or tire out with excessive waking or watching while fortake is to take away; remove; deprive.

forwake

English

Verb

(forwak)
  • (obsolete) To exhaust or tire out with excessive waking or watching.
    • He was forwept, he was forwaked'' ? ''Gower , Conf. Amant.

    fortake

    English

    Verb

  • To take away; remove; deprive.
  • *1861 , Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Spoon and sparrow :
    • Be ye not willing to hoard to you gold hoards on earth, where rust and moth fortake it, and where thieves delve it and forsteal, [...]
  • *1866 , Couldrette, Walter William Skeat, The romans of Partenay, or of Lusignen :
    • With thys fair lady ther fortake ueryly, [...]
  • *1898 , Stopford Augustus Brooke, English literature: from the beginning to the Norman conquest :
    • In a slaughter wide they fell, woeful days of Bale came on; Famine-death fortook fortitude from men!
  • To mistake; make a mistake.
  • To aim or deal a blow at; hit.