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Meaning of forslow | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. To be dilatory about; put off; postpone; neglect; omit.
  2. To delay; hinder; impede; obstruct.
  3. To be slow or dilatory; loiter.

Examples

“[I]f you can thinke vpon any preſent meanes for his deliuerie, doe not forſlow it.”
“But by no meanes my way I would forslow / For ought that ever she could doe or say […]”
“The wond'ring Nereids, though they rais'd no storm, / Foreslow'd her passage, to behold her form.”
“Foreslow no longer, make we hence amaine.”

CEFR level

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Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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