Definition of "for-" in İngilizce

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1. (no longer productive) Forth: prefixed to verbs to indicate a direction of 'away', 'off', 'forth'.

   • forsteal
   • forloppin
   • forban
   • fordrive
   • fortake
   • forthrow
   • forshake
   • forhow

2. (no longer productive) Exhausting: prefixed to verbs with the sense of wearing or exhausting one's self.

   • forsing
   • forwander
   • fortravel

3. (no longer productive) Destructively: prefixed to verbs with the sense of destruction or pain.

   • forhang
   • forthink
   • fordo

4. (no longer productive) Wrongly: prefixed to verbs with the sense of wrongly, amorally.

   • forteach
   • forswear
   • forworship
   • forlead
   • forlive

5. (no longer productive) Neglectfully: prefixed to verbs with the sense of abstaining from or neglecting.

   • forslip
   • forslug
   • forslack

6. (no longer productive) Very: intensifying adjectives.

   • forblack
   • forswollen

7. (no longer productive) Making: prefixed to verbs to indicate the subject takes the character of the verb.

   • fordote
   • forguilt

8. (no longer productive) Excessively: prefixed to verbs with the sense of doing so in excessive or overwhelm.

   • forwax
   • forgrow
   • forhare

9. (no longer productive) Excluding: prefixed to verbs to give the sense of prohibition or exclusion.

   • forjudge
   • forshut
   • forbar

10. (no longer productive) Intensively

    • forbeat
    • fordread
    • forlay

11. (no longer productive) Thoroughly: prefixed to verbs with the sense of thoroughly, all over.

    • forgrow
    • forbathe
    • forseek
    • forwrap

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1. Alternative form of fore-.

   • forstand