forearm
1 Americannoun
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Anatomy. the part of the arm between the elbow and the wrist.
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Zoology. the corresponding part of the foreleg between the elbow and the knee in certain quadrupeds.
verb (used with object)
noun
verb
Other Word Forms
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Conjugated Forms
Present
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forearmsimple
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forearmssimple
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have forearmedperfect
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has forearmedperfect
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am forearmingprogressive
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are forearmingprogressive
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is forearmingprogressive
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have been forearmingperfect progressive
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has been forearmingperfect progressive
Past
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forearmedsimple
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had forearmedperfect
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was forearmingprogressive
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were forearmingprogressive
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had been forearmingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of forearm1
First recorded in 1735–45; fore- + arm 1
Origin of forearm2
Example Sentences
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The longtime CIA operative had exfiltrated the families of spies from the most repressive of Middle Eastern regimes and tattooed the word “ARGONAUT,” an homage to seafaring heroes from Greek mythology, across his right forearm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Solemnly, some placed their hands on his shoulder or forearm.
From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026
Osimhen was subbed off at half-time and it was later revealed by the Turkish side that he had fractured his forearm.
From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026
In a virtual reality environment, participants saw an avatar whose left forearm had been replaced with a prosthetic limb.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 13, 2026
His hands are dirty, and he swipes away long cords of black hair spilling in front of his eyes with his forearm.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
The company has had issues designing its robots’ hands and forearms, as well as sourcing parts.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 26, 2025
The hands are driven by motors that are packed into forearms the size of coffee cans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2025
Breaking his fall with two hands on the turf, cuffs of his baggy blue keeper's jersey halfway up his forearms and long black curls flowing behind him, Higuita immediately burst into his iconic grin.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2025
In wheel throwing, it’s important to anchor your elbows to your hips, forearms to the splash pan and thighs to the outside of your wheel — I didn’t do any of that.
From Salon ● May 25, 2025
Sammy lay down and put his head on his forearms.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
But to be forewarned is to be forearmed.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 17, 2024
The emotional charge of seeing their top scorer felled by a forearmed shot behind the action from their opponent’s star defenseman seemed to catapult the already surging Kraken to an entirely different level of play.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2023
The cartoonist also arrives forearmed with an enthusiastic knowledge of Popeye’s history.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2022
And mind you, while knowing ahead of time may change nothing about the court's decision,, forewarned is indeed forearmed.
From Salon ● May 5, 2022
These unexpected jolts from Larsen were difficult to prepare for, but Bobby’s continuous study of the old masters left him relatively forearmed.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
This, after all, is a woman who dislocated her shoulder three years ago while forearming a raccoon off her deck to protect her Labrador retriever.
From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2011
One of the smug assumptions of the cold war era was that the U.S. was forearming itself with a stockpile of strategically scarce commodities to see it through a wartime siege.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Forewarning," she said gloomily, "is a torture when forearming avails naught."
From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth
He had a presentiment that in this way God was forearming him for some extraordinary trial; and the loss of his wife seemed to him most likely to be that trial.
From The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by Prentiss, George L.
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