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  • verb transitive, intransitive, obsolete To blacken; make swart or swarthy; sunburn.
  • adjective obsolete Forswarted.

Etymologies

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From Middle English forswarten, equivalent to for- +‎ swart.

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  • Exhausted by heat. —Rev. John Boag's Imperial Lexicon, c. 1850.

    September 29, 2015