v. Obs. [f. FOR- pref.1 + DWINE; = MDu. verdwijnen.] intr. To fade away, decay, wither; to vanish.

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c. 1000.  Ælfric, Saints’ Lives (E.E.T.S.), II. 268.

        Se deofol þær-rihte for-dwan swa swa smic
of þæs halȝan ȝesihðe.

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a. 1300.  Old Age, vi., in E. E. P. (1862), 149.

        When i bi-hold on mi schennen
m’in dimmiþ al for-dwynnen.
    Ibid. (c. 1305.  Pilate, 215, ibid., 117.
His bodie gan al fordwyne.

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a. 1366[?].  Chaucer, Rom. Rose, 365.

        Hir face frounced and forpyned,
And bothe hir hondes lorn, fordwyned.

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