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verb
To cause distress or regret to; cause to regret or repent; to vex.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: impersonal, obsolete, transitive
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verb
To regret; repent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, reflexive
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verb
To regret.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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verb
To repent, be sorry for.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, obsolete
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verb
To change one's mind about; to renounce.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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History
From Middle English forthinken, forthynken (“to displease, cause to regret”), corresponding to for- (“mis-”) + think (“to seem, appear”), from Old English þyncan (“to seem, appear”); see methinks. Cognate with Middle High German verdunken (“to displease”), Icelandic forþykkja (“to displease”). Compare also Old English forþencan (“to mistrust, despise, despair”), Dutch verdenken (“to suspect”), German verdenken (“to blame”).
