forslean

== Old English == === Etymology === From for- +‎ slēan. Cognate with Old High German firslahan. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /forˈslæ͜ɑːn/ === Verb === forslēan to break, destroy, kill, smite, slay, strike with violence to wound by striking or with a blow, cut through, break with a stroke to make slaughter of, defeat with slaughter, beat an enemy to condemn (figuratively) to overthrow, rout ==== Conjugation ==== === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “forsleán”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.