Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Exhausted with fighting or labor; fatigued and breathless.
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- adjective Scotland Exhausted from
fighting .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Sir, said a knight, set on Arthur for they are weary and forfoughten and we be fresh.
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Sir knight, said the two brethren, we are forfoughten and much blood have we lost through our wilfulness, and therefore we would be loath to have ado with you.
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Sir, said a knight, set on Arthur for they are weary and forfoughten and we be fresh.
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Sir knight, said the two brethren, we are forfoughten and much blood have we lost through our wilfulness, and therefore we would be loath to have ado with you.
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-- I'm sitten down here, after seven-and-forty miles 'ridin', e'en as forjesket and forniaw'd as a forfoughten cock, to gie ye some notion o 'my land lowper-like stravaguin sin the sorrowfu' hour that I sheuk hands and parted wi 'auld Reekie.
The Letters of Robert Burns Robert Burns 1777
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I'm sitten down here after seven and forty miles ridin ', e'en as forjesket and forniaw'd as a forfoughten cock, to gie you some notion
sionnach commented on the word forfoughten
worn out with struggling or fatigue
April 25, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word forfoughten
The condition of some last-minute holiday shoppers.
December 25, 2010