Forworth meaning
(intransitive, rare, now chiefly dialectal) To degenerate (into); become (something inferi); come to.
verb
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Origin of forworth
- From Middle English forworthen, from Old English forweorþan (“to perish, pass away, vanish; deteriorate, sicken”), from Proto-Germanic *frawerþaną (“to perish, come to ruin”), equivalent to for- (“away, wrongly, badly”) + worth (“to turn into, become”).
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