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語源

From Middle English forlyven, equivalent to for- +‎ live. Cognate with German verleben (“to spend, spend time”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /fə(ɹ)ˈlɪv/, /fɔː(ɹ)ˈlɪv/

動詞

forlive (三人称単数 現在形 forlives, 現在分詞 forliving, 過去形および過去分詞形 forlived)

1. (intransitive) To live pervertedly.
2. (intransitive) To outlive one's strength; become decrepit; degenerate in race or nature; become wretched.
   • 1810, Joseph Ames, Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Typographical antiquities:

     For if ye look your beginning, and God your father, author, and your maker, then is there none forlived wight or ungentle, but if he nourish his courage unto vices, and forelet his proper birth.

派生語

• forlived