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- verb transitive, obsolete To
submerge ; cause tosink ;drown .
Etymologies
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From Middle English forsenchen, from Old English forsencan ("to reject", literally "cause to sink"), equivalent to for- (“up, fully, completely”) + sench (“to cause to sink”). Cognate with Old High German farsenkan.
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