† fortravailfortravelv.
Obsolete.
transitive. To exhaust with labour.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > weary or exhaust [verb (transitive)] > esp. through labour
fortravailc1305
overtravaila1382
overdrivea1450
over-labour1530
overwork1530
defatigate?1533
toil1549
forspend1571
out-toil1603
overtoil1607
slave1864
c1305 St. Kenelm 314 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 56 Fortrauailled hy were sore: þat hi moste slepe echon.
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iii. 326 Ye king saw yat he..wes for-trawaillyt.
1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) ix. ii. 349/1 The fende..thre houres togydre..fortrauayled hym.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xviii. 20 His men of warre..were meruailously fortrauailed.
1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 129 The sutor-folk..Wi' flings fortravail'd and forfairn.
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