For show
For the sake of appearances or display. For example, They put on a lavish buffet, mainly for show, or The police pretended to jail the informer, for show. [ c. 1700 ]
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- Forsook
[fawr-soo k] /fɔrˈsʊk/ verb 1. a simple past tense of . [fawr-seyk] /fɔrˈseɪk/ verb (used with object), forsook, forsaken, forsaking. 1. to quit or leave entirely; abandon; desert: She has forsaken her country for an island in the South Pacific. 2. to give up or renounce (a habit, way of life, etc.). /fəˈsʊk/ verb 1. […]
- Forsooth
[fawr-sooth] /fɔrˈsuθ/ adverb, Archaic. 1. (now used in derision or to express disbelief) in truth; in fact; indeed. /fəˈsuːθ/ adverb 1. (archaic) in truth; indeed adv. Old English forsoð “indeed, verily,” from for-, perhaps here with intensive force (or else the whole might be “for a truth”), + soð “truth” (see sooth).
- Forspeak
/fɔːˈspiːk/ verb -speaks, -speaking, -spoke, -spoken 1. (transitive) (Scot, archaic) to bewitch
- Forspent
[fawr-spent] /fɔrˈspɛnt/ adjective, Archaic. 1. worn out; exhausted. /fɔːˈspɛnt/ adjective 1. (archaic) tired out; exhausted
- Forssmann
[fawrs-mahn, -muh n, fohrs-; German fawrs-mahn] /ˈfɔrs mɑn, -mən, ˈfoʊrs-; German ˈfɔrs mɑn/ noun 1. Werner [German ver-nuh r] /German ˈvɛr nər/ (Show IPA), 1904–79, German surgeon: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1956. Forssmann Forss·mann (fôrs’män’, -mən), Werner Theodor Otto. 1904-1979. German physician. He shared a 1956 Nobel Prize for developing cardiac catheterization.