Home › Words › F › forshakeforshakeforshake · verb — to shake off; rid or free oneself from.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, forshake ranks #2,138 of 43,221 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom Middle English forschaken, equivalent to for- + shake. Likely influenced by or mistaken as an error for forsake.verbTo shake off; rid or free oneself from.e.g.“But meeting in a land foreign to almost everybody, they lived together like one family and one people forshaking their various speeches, habits, everything.” — 1995, Sudhāṃśu Śekhara Tuṅga, Bengali and Other Related Dialects of South Assam, page 30:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.atshake 71% match — To flee away; escape. vs forshake →beshake 67% match — To shake roughly or violently. vs forshake →toshake 63% match — To shake violently; shake to pieces. vs forshake →offcast 60% match — To cast off; shed. vs forshake →rog 60% match — To shake. vs forshake →unshake 60% match — To retract; to unfold. vs forshake →shab 58% match — Scabies. vs forshake →quitch 57% match — To shake (something); to stir, move. vs forshake →