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Wander vs Forwander - What's the difference?

wander | forwander |

As verbs the difference between wander and forwander

is that wander is to move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood while forwander is to wander until weary; wander far and wide.

As a noun wander

is the act or instance of wandering.

wander

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (lb) To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.
  • :
  • *(Bible), (w) xi.37:
  • *:They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins.
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  • *:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
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  • *:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.
  • (lb) To stray; stray from one's course; err.
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  • *(Bible), (Psalms) cxix.10:
  • *:O, let me not wander from thy commandments.
  • (lb) To commit adultery.
  • (lb) To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path.
  • (lb) Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention.

    • Conjugation

    (en-conj-simple)

    Synonyms

    * (move without purpose) err, roam * (commit adultery) cheat * (go somewhere indirectly) * (lose focus) drift

    Derived terms

    * wander off * wanderer * wanderlust

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or instance of wandering.
    • To go for a wander

    Anagrams

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    forwander

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To wander until weary; wander far and wide.
  • *2009 , Richard Beadle, Pamela M. King, York Mystery Plays :
    • Ah, I am full weary, lief, let me sleep, Forwandered and walked in this forest.
  • To weary with wandering; cause to wander until weary.
  • *1897 , Sir George Adam Smith, The book of Isaiah :
    • [...] His courage, His purity, His meekness; His daily wakefulness to God's voice, the swiftness and brilliance of His speech for others, His silence under His own torments; His resorts—among the bruised, the prisoners, the forwandered of Israel, [...]