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Forslow

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Forslow is a verb meaning (transitive) To be dilatory about; put off; postpone; neglect; omit.

Meaning

(transitive) To be dilatory about; put off; postpone; neglect; omit.

More Meanings

  1. (transitive) To delay; hinder; impede; obstruct.
  2. (intransitive) To be slow or dilatory; loiter.

Example Sentences

Foreslow no longer, make we hence amaine.
[I]f you can thinke vpon any preſent meanes for his deliuerie, doe not forſlow it.
But by no meanes my way I would forslow / For ought that ever she could doe or say […]
The wond'ring Nereids, though they rais'd no storm, / Foreslow'd her passage, to behold her form.

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Related dictionary entries include foreslow, forsloth, forslug, forslack, retard, defer.

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