forhergian

== Old English == === Etymology === From for- +‎ hergian. Cognate with Old High German farheriōn, German verheeren. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /forˈxer.ɡi.ɑn/, [forˈherˠ.ɣi.ɑn] === Verb === forhergian to lay waste, destroy, ravage, devastate, plunder The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (gloss) vāstāre, dēvāstāre, dēpŏpŭlāre ==== Conjugation ==== === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “forhergian”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.