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forfare

verb

Etymology

From Middle English forfaren, from Old English forfaran (“to pass away, perish, lose, destroy, ruin, cause to perish, intercept, obstruct”), from Proto-Germanic *frafaraną, equivalent to for- + fare. Cognate with Scots forfar (“to go amiss, decay, perish”), Old Frisian forfara (“to die”), German verfahren (“to use up, spend, lose one's way”), Old Danish forfare (“to perish”).

  1. inherited from *frafaraną✻
  2. inherited from forfaran — “to pass away, perish, lose, destroy, ruin, cause to perish, intercept, obstruct”
  3. inherited from forfaren

Definitions

  1. To go to ruin

    To go to ruin; be destroyed; perish.

  2. To destroy

    To destroy; ruin.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA