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Forwasted vs Forwaste - What's the difference?

forwasted | forwaste |

As an adjective forwasted

is laid waste, wasted.

As a verb forwaste is

to waste; waste completely; lay waste to; desolate.

forwasted

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Laid waste, wasted.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spendser, The Faerie Queene , I.xi:
    • To thinke of those her captiue Parents deare, / And their forwasted kingdome to repaire [...].
    English words prefixed with for-

    forwaste

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (forwast)
  • (obsolete) To waste; waste completely; lay waste to; desolate.
  • (obsolete) To use up; exhaust; render emaciated or feeble; spend wastefully.