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Meaning of for- | Babel Free

Phrase CEFR C2 Standard
fɔː(ɹ)

Definitions

  1. Outside, out.
  2. Forth: prefixed to verbs to indicate a direction of 'away', 'off', 'forth'.
  3. Exhausting: prefixed to verbs with the sense of wearing or exhausting one's self.
  4. Destructively: prefixed to verbs with the sense of destruction or pain.
  5. Wrongly: prefixed to verbs with the sense of wrongly, amorally.
  6. Neglectfully: prefixed to verbs with the sense of abstaining from or neglecting.
  7. Very: intensifying adjectives.
  8. Making: prefixed to verbs to indicate the subject takes the character of the verb.
  9. Excessively: prefixed to verbs with the sense of doing so in excessive or overwhelm.
  10. Excluding: prefixed to verbs to give the sense of prohibition or exclusion.
  11. Intensively
  12. Thoroughly: prefixed to verbs with the sense of thoroughly, all over.

Equivalents

Suomi edes
Français for-

Examples

“forsteal”
“forloppin”
“forban”
“fordrive”
“fortake”
“forthrow”
“forshake”
“forhow”
“forsing”
“forwander”
“fortravel”
“forhang”
“forthink”
“fordo”
“forteach”
“forswear”
“forworship”
“forlead”
“forlive”
“forslip”
“forslug”
“forslack”
“forblack”
“forswollen”
“fordote”
“forguilt”
“forwax”
“forgrow”
“forhare”
“forjudge”
“forshut”
“forbar”
“forbeat”
“fordread”
“forlay”
“forbathe”
“forseek”
“forwrap”
“forstand”
“fordede”
“foreclose”
“forprise”
“forfeit”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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