fordo
verbEtymology
From Middle English fordon, from Old English fordōn (“to undo, bring to naught, ruin, destroy, abolish, kill, corrupt, seduce, defile”), from Proto-West Germanic *fradōn (“to ruin, destroy”), equivalent to for- + do. Cognate with Saterland Frisian ferdwo (“to waste, consume”), West Frisian ferdwaan (“to waste”), Dutch verdoen (“to kill, waste”), German Low German verdoon (“to waste, consume”), German vertun (“to waste, spend, consume”).
Definitions
To kill, destroy.
- […]This doth betoken / The coarse they follow did with desperate hand / Foredoe it’s own life.
To annul, abolish, cancel.
To do away with, undo
To do away with, undo; to ruin.
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To overcome with fatigue
To overcome with fatigue; to exhaust.
- worn faces (...) / they wander, wander, / Or sit foredone and desolately ponder / Through sleepless hours with heavy drooping head.
- Foredone by the agitation of the past hour, he did not at once realise what it was that he saw.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for fordo. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA