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forwound

forwound

English

Verb

forwound (third-person singular simple present forwounds, present participle forwounding, simple past and past participle forwounded)

  1. (transitive) To wound or injure severely.
    • 1894, Sir Mungo William MacCallum, Tennyson's Idylls of the King and Arthurian story from the XVIth century:
      And Arthur was forwounded with a broad spear of slaughter; fifteen cruel wounds had he, in the least one might thrust two gloves.