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語源

From for- +‎ waste.

動詞

forwaste (third-person singular simple present forwastes, present participle forwasting, simple past and past participle forwasted)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To waste; waste completely; lay waste to; desolate.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Yet shortly he renounst the vassallage
     Of Rome againe , who hether hastly sent
     Vespasian , that with great spoile and rage
     Forwasted all

2. (transitive, obsolete) To use up; exhaust; render emaciated or feeble; spend wastefully.

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