v. Obs. Also 6–7 forewaste. Pa. pple. 6 forwaste. [f. FOR- pref.1 + WASTE v.] trans. = WASTE v. in various senses; to lay waste; to use up, exhaust; to render emaciated or feeble; to spend wastefully.
1563. Sackville, Induct. Mirr. Mag., xi.
| And strayt forth stalking with redoubled pace | |
| For what I sawe the night drewe on so fast, | |
| In blacke all clad there fell before my face | |
| A piteous wight, whom woe had al forwaste. |
a. 1577. Gascoigne, Flowers, Jocasta, Wks. (1587), 91. Then set aside these vaine forewasted words.
1580. Sidney, Arcadia (1622), 365. The rest both in face and apparell so fore wasted, that they seemed to beare a great conformitie with the sauages.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., I. xi. 1.
| High time now gan it wex for Vna faire, | |
| To thinke of those her captiue Parents deare, | |
| And their forwasted kingdome to repaire. |
1630. Lord, Banians & Persees, 31. Such as were able to make their forewasted powers, spent with yeeres to renew their vigour.
