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For (2)
Webster's Dictionary
A prefix to verbs, having usually the force of a negative or privative. It often implies also loss, detriment, or destruction, and sometimes it is intensive, meaning utterly, quite thoroughly, as in forbathe.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'For (2)'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/f/for-2.html. 1828.