Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to forslow
Participle: forslowed
Gerund: forslowing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | forslow |
| you | forslow |
| he;she;it | forslows |
| we | forslow |
| you | forslow |
| they | forslow |
Perfect
| I | have forslowed |
| you | have forslowed |
| he;she;it | has forslowed |
| we | have forslowed |
| you | have forslowed |
| they | have forslowed |
Past
| I | forslowed |
| you | forslowed |
| he;she;it | forslowed |
| we | forslowed |
| you | forslowed |
| they | forslowed |
Pluperfect
| I | had forslowed |
| you | had forslowed |
| he;she;it | had forslowed |
| we | had forslowed |
| you | had forslowed |
| they | had forslowed |
Future
| I | will forslow |
| you | will forslow |
| he;she;it | will forslow |
| we | will forslow |
| you | will forslow |
| they | will forslow |
Future Perfect
| I | will have forslowed |
| you | will have forslowed |
| he;she;it | will have forslowed |
| we | will have forslowed |
| you | will have forslowed |
| they | will have forslowed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | forslow |
| you | forslow |
| he;she;it | forslow |
| we | forslow |
| you | forslow |
| they | forslow |
Perfect
| I | have forslowed |
| you | have forslowed |
| he;she;it | have forslowed |
| we | have forslowed |
| you | have forslowed |
| they | have forslowed |
Imperfect
| I | forslowed |
| you | forslowed |
| he;she;it | forslowed |
| we | forslowed |
| you | forslowed |
| they | forslowed |
Pluperfect
| I | had forslowed |
| you | had forslowed |
| he;she;it | had forslowed |
| we | had forslowed |
| you | had forslowed |
| they | had forslowed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would forslow |
| you | would forslow |
| he;she;it | would forslow |
| we | would forslow |
| you | would forslow |
| they | would forslow |
Perfect
| I | would have forslowed |
| you | would have forslowed |
| he;she;it | would have forslowed |
| we | would have forslowed |
| you | would have forslowed |
| they | would have forslowed |
Imperative
| you | forslow |
| we | Let's forslow |
| you | forslow |
Verbs conjugated like 'forslow'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'forslow'
foreslow,
follow,
fore-slow,
foreflow,
foreshow,
forhow,
forsloth,
forslug,
forstaw,
forstop,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to make difficult to accomplish; to frustrate, act as obstacle
- behedge, forestay, frustrate, get in the way, hamper, handicap, hinder, hold up, impede, incommode, obstruct, overslaugh, prevene, prevent, restrict, retard, slow down, stay, thwart, thwarten, umbeset, undermine
- To be dilatory about
- procrastinate
- To delay
- hinder
- To be slow or dilatory
- loiter
- To be slow or dilatory; loiter.
- loiter
- to delay taking action; to wait until later
- avert, forestall, forestay, protract, retard, suspend, procrastinate
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English forslowen, forslewen (“to neglect”), from Old English forslāwian, forslǣwan (“to be slow, unwilling, delay, put off”), equivalent to for- + slow.
Sample Sentences
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[I]f you can thinke vpon any preſent meanes for his deliuerie, doe not forſlow it. [1599 (first performance), B. I. [i.e., Ben Jonson], The Comicall Satyre of Euery Man out of His Humor. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for William Holme, […], published 1600, →OCLC, Act V, scene iii, signature [Q iiij], recto:]
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But by no meanes my way I would forslow / For ought that ever she could doe or say […] [1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]
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The wond'ring Nereids, though they rais'd no storm, / Foreslow'd her passage, to behold her form. [1682, John Dryden, Epistles, section XIII:]
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Foreslow no longer, make we hence amaine. [c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):]