forwake means to exhaust or tire out with excessive waking or watching. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 71 out of 100.
Why this word is great
FORWAKE — [Verb] To exhaust or tire out through excessive waking or watching. From Middle English forwaken, forwakien, from the Old English prefix for- (intensive or destructive) + waken (to wake). Unlike fatigue, a general state of weariness, or vigil, the act of watchfulness itself, to forwake is to be hollowed out by sustained consciousness. It is the gritty ache behind the eyes of the scholar at dawn, the leaden limbs of the nurse after a double shift, the brittle alertness of a parent listening for a sick child’s breath in the dark—the quiet tax exacted by a mind that stubbornly refuses the relief of oblivion.
verb
- To exhaust or tire out with excessive waking or watching.“He was forwept, he was forwaked.”