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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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