forwander

English

Etymology

From Middle English forwandrien, equivalent to for- +‎ wander.

Verb

forwander (third-person singular simple present forwanders, present participle forwandering, simple past and past participle forwandered)

1. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To wander until weary; wander far and wide.
   • 2009, Richard Beadle, Pamela M. King, York Mystery Plays:

     Ah, I am full weary, lief, let me sleep, Forwandered and walked in this forest.

2. (transitive, UK dialectal) To weary with wandering; cause to wander until weary.
   • 1897, Sir George Adam Smith, The book of Isaiah:

     […] His courage, His purity, His meekness; His daily wakefulness to God's voice, the swiftness and brilliance of His speech for others, His silence under His own torments; His resorts—among the bruised, the prisoners, the forwandered of Israel, […]

   • 1899, John Buchan, No Man's Land:

     The Lent term had pulled me down, a week of modest enjoyment thereafter in town had finished the work; and I drank in the sharp moorish air like a thirsty man who has been forwandered among deserts.

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• Far-Downer, Fardowner, foredrawn, forwarned