† forwastev.
Obsolete.
transitive. = waste v. in various senses; to lay waste; to use up, exhaust; to render emaciated or feeble; to spend wastefully.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > weary or exhaust [verb (transitive)]
wearyc897
tirea1000
travailc1300
forwearya1325
taryc1375
tarc1440
matec1450
break1483
labour1496
overwearya1500
wear?1507
to wear out, forth1525
fatigate1535
stress1540
overtire1558
forwaste1563
to tire out1563
overwear1578
spend1582
out-tire1596
outwear1596
outweary1596
overspend1596
to toil out1596
attediate1603
bejade1620
lassate1623
harassa1626
overtask1628
tax1672
hag1674
trash1685
hatter1687
overtax1692
fatigue1693
to knock up1740
tire to death1740
overfatigue1741
fag1774
outdo1776
to do over1789
to use up1790
jade1798
overdo1817
frazzlea1825
worry1828
to sew up1837
to wear to death1840
to take it (also a lot, too much, etc.) out of (a person)1847
gruel1850
to stump up1853
exhaust1860
finish1864
peter1869
knacker1886
grind1887
tew1893
crease1925
poop1931
raddle1951
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > devastate or lay waste (a place, etc.)
harryc893
fordoc900
awesteeOE
westeeOE
losec950
harrowc1000
destroyc1230
wastec1275
ravishc1325
to lie waste1338
exilea1382
to-wastea1382
unronea1400
desolatea1425
vast1434
fruster?a1513
to lay waste1535
wipe1535
devast1537
depopulate1548
populate1552
forwaste1563
ruinate1564
havoc1575
scourge1576
dispopulate1588
destitute1593
ravage1602
harassa1618
devastate1638
execute1679
to make stroy of1682
to lay in ashes1711
untown1783
hell-rake1830
uncity1850
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > wasting disease > affect with wasting disease [verb (transitive)]
wastec1230
forpinec1275
pinea1325
corrodec1400
rust1493
macerate1547
forwaste1563
tabefy1656
tabid1661
colliquate1666
undermine1879
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > be of no avail to [verb (transitive)] > expend (effort, time, or speech) in vain
spilla1225
tinec1330
waste1340
forwaste1563
1563 T. Sackville in W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) xi A piteous wight, whom love had al forwaste.
1573 G. Gascoigne & F. Kinwelmersh Iocasta ii. i, in G. Gascoigne Hundreth Sundrie Flowres sig. Oiiiv Then set aside these vaine forewasted wordes.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iii. sig. Gg6v The rest both in face and apparell so forewasted that they seemed to beare a great conformity with the sauages.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. xi. sig. K7 And their forwasted kingdom to repayre.
1630 H. Lord Display Two Forraigne Sects 31 To make their forewasted powers..to renew their vigour.
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