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forcasten

The English word “forcasten” has 3 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Felled, fallen.
  2. Cast away, rejected; neglected; not used, cast off.
  3. Abandoned; forlorn.

Etymology

Originally the past participle of obsolete forcast (“to cast away”); also from Middle English forcasten, a variant of forcast (“rejected, cast away”), past participle of forcasten (“to cast away, reject”), of North Germanic origin, compare Danish forkaste (“to reject”), Swedish förkasta (“to reject”), equivalent to for- + cast.

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