Fordo

Quick meaning: Fordo is a verb meaning (obsolete) To kill, destroy.

Meaning

(obsolete) To kill, destroy.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete) To annul, abolish, cancel.
2. (archaic) To do away with, undo; to ruin.
3. (archaic) To overcome with fatigue; to exhaust.

Example Sentences

[…]This doth betoken / The coarse they follow did with desperate hand / Foredoe it’s own life.

Foredone by the agitation of the past hour, he did not at once realise what it was that he saw.

worn faces (...) / they wander, wander, / Or sit foredone and desolately ponder / Through sleepless hours with heavy drooping head.

And that penaūce god hath ordeyned yow for that dede / that he that ye shalle most truste to of ony man alyue / he shalle leue yow ther ye shalle be slayne / Me forthynketh said kynge Pellinore that this shalle me betyde but god may fordoo wel desteny

Word Forms

• fordoes
• fordoing
• fordid
• fordone
• foredo

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fordrench, stroy, mortify, fordread, kill, delete.

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