forworth

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To perish, forfare; come to nought or ruin; go wrong. Northern-England,Scotland,intransitive,obsolete,rare
  2. To degenerate (into); become (something inferior); come to. Northern-England,Scotland,intransitive,obsolete,rare

词形变化

forworths present,singular,third-person forworthing participle,present forworthed past forword past forworthed participle,past forword participle,past forworthen participle,past forworden participle,past

词源

From Middle English forworthen, from Old English forweorþan (“to perish, pass away, vanish; deteriorate, sicken”), from Proto-Germanic *frawerþaną (“to perish, come to ruin”), equivalent to for- (“away, wrongly, badly”) + worth (“to turn into, become”). Cognate with Dutch verworden.
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