for

• Because
• Since
• A prefix to verbs, having usually the force of a negative or privative. It often implies also loss, detriment, or destruction, and sometimes it is intensive, meaning utterly, quite thoroughly, as in forbathe
• In the most general sense, indicating that in consideration of, in view of, or with reference to, which anything is done or takes place
• Indicating the antecedent cause or occasion of an action
• Indicating the remoter and indirect object of an act
• Indicating that in favor of which, or in promoting which, anything is, or is done
• Indicating that toward which the action of anything is directed, or the point toward which motion is made
• Indicating that on place of or instead of which anything acts or serves, or that to which a substitute, an equivalent, a compensation, or the like, is offered or made
• Indicating that in the character of or as being which anything is regarded or treated
• Indicating that instead of which something else controls in the performing of an action, or that in spite of which anything is done, occurs, or is
• Indicating the space or time through which an action or state extends
• Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done
• One who takes, or that which is said on, the affrimative side
• Residential area (city, town, village) in Norway in Nordland
• Residential area (city, town, village) in Sudan in Al Wusta

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