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Forwrought

adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Worked-up; agitated; troubled.

    "[...] Arthur; a fearful night it was: there was a sough in the air, a sound drawing nigh like that of a host marching:- — but you're looking pale and forwrought, man; is any thing ailing ye?"

  2. 2
    Blocked; obstructed.

    "And Æthelwold sat within the ham, with the men that to him had bowed, and he had forwrought [obstructed] all the gates in, and said that he would either there live or there lie. Thereupon rode the ætheling on night away, and sought the [...]"

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of forwork form-of, participle, past

Etymology

Etymology 1

From forwork, equivalent to for- + wrought.

Etymology 2

From forwork, equivalent to for- + wrought.

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