forshake

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forshake

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From Middle English forschaken, equivalent to for- + shake. Likely influenced by or mistaken as an error for forsake.

verb forshakes · forshaking · forshook · forshaken

  1. ambitransitive, rare To shake off; rid or free oneself from. But meeting in a land foreign to almost everybody, they lived together like one family and one people forshaking their various speeches, habits, everything.

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@misc{forshake_2026,
  title = {forshake},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/forshake},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}