fortake
verbEtymology From Middle English fortaken, equivalent to for- + take. Cognate with dialectal Norwegian fortaka (“to assail, assault”), Swedish förta (“to deprive, take away, deaden”).
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To take away; remove; deprive.
- Be ye not willing to hoard to you gold hoards on earth, where rust and moth fortake it, and where thieves delve it and forsteal, [...]1861, Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Spoon and sparrow:
- In a slaughter wide they fell, woeful days of Bale came on; Famine-death fortook fortitude from men!1898, Stopford Augustus Brooke, English literature: from the beginning to the Norman conquest: