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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

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· IPA /fɔː(ɹ)/
01 A prefix to verbs, having usually the force of a negative or privative. It often implies also loss, detriment, or destruction, and sometime…
  1. 1.
    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.