forwork
Meanings
Verb
- To forfeit (a possession, privilege, etc.); ruin (oneself) by one's own conduct.
- To obstruct; barricade; block.
- To do wrong to; injure; scathe.
- To overwork; exhaust with toil.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English forwirken, forwerken, forwurchen, from Old English forwerċan, forwyrċan (“to do wrong, sin; ruin, undo, destroy; condemn, convict, curse; forfeit; barricade, obstruct, close up”), from Proto-Germanic *frawurkijaną, equivalent to for- + work. Cognate with Dutch verwerken (“to digest, assimilate, work up, put into action”), German verwirken (“to forfeit”), Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌺𐌾𐌰𐌽 (frawaurkjan).
Synonyms
abuse, annoy, barricade, bewound, block, burn out, choke, clog, close off, cumber, damage, damnify, dere, do damage to, do for, do ill, do violence to, forslow, forwork, grieve, hamper, harm, harrow, hinder, hurt, impede, injure, interfere, interrupt, intervene, jam, maul, misdo, obstruct, obturate, occlude, overburden, overlabour, overply, overtax, plug, put someone in hospital, roadblock, run someone ragged, scaith, scathe, seal, shoot oneself in the foot, stonewall, thwart, vulnerate, wet, wound, yield
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