forlese
Formsforleses, forlesing, forlore, forlorn
- 1To abandon or forsake someone or something.
Note
A verb that went out of use long ago, though one of its forms looks familiar: the past tense was forlore and the past participle forlorn, the same spelling as the adjective forlorn. It goes back to Old English forlēosan, to lose, let go or ruin, built from for- and the old verb lese. In Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590), riders reaching a shore leave their chariots behind: their charets they forlore.
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Origin
From Middle English forlesen, from Old English forlēosan ("to lose, abandon, let go, destroy, ruin"), from Proto-Germanic *fraleusaną; it is equivalent to for- + lese. It is related to Scots forlore, Dutch verliezen, German verlieren and Swedish förlora, all meaning "to lose", and to Swedish förlisa ("to be lost").