English Explanatory Dictionary

forsench

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To submerge; cause to sink; drown.

Word forms

forsench forsenches forsenching forsenched

Etymology

From Middle English forsenchen, from Old English forsenċan (“to reject”, literally “cause to sink”). By surface analysis, for- (“up, fully, completely”) + sench (“to cause to sink”). Cognate with Old High German firsenken (“to sink, destroy”).

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