† fordwinev.
Obsolete.
intransitive. To fade away, decay, wither; to vanish.
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the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > deteriorate in condition [verb (intransitive)] > lose freshness
wallowc888
falloweOE
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foryellowc1220
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wanzec1400
witherc1400
unappair1426
quail?c1430
withera1500
quell1579
tainta1616
daver1621
welter1645
tarnish1678
c1000 Ælfric Lives Saints (E.E.T.S.) II. 268 Se deofol þær-rihte for-dwan swa swa smic of þæs halgan gesihðe.
a1300 Old Age vi, in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 149 When i bi-hold on mi schennen m'in dimmiþ al for-dwynnen.
c1305 Pilate 215 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 117 His bodi gan al fordwyne.
?a1366 Romaunt Rose 366 Bothe hir hondes lorn, fordwyned.
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