forfoughten

Middle English

Adjective

forfoughten

  1. exhausted from fighting
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter X, in Le Morte Darthur, book II:
      Now what is best to doo sayd kyng Lot of Orkeney whether is me better to treate with kynge Arthur or to fyghte / for the gretter party of oure peple are slayne / and destroyed / Syr said a knyght set on arthur for they are wery and forfoughten and we be fresshe
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