forshake
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English forschaken, equivalent to for- + shake.
Verb[edit]
forshake (third-person singular simple present forshakes, present participle forshaking, simple past forshook, past participle forshaken)
- Misspelling of forsake.
- (transitive) To shake off; rid or free oneself from.
- 2004, Mithilesh K. Pandey, Writing the Female: Akademi Awarded Novels in English:
- It is only at Carignano that she can forshake the prescribed role of wife/mother, a domesticated, servile woman.