fordo

American  

[fawr-doo] / fɔrˈdu /

verb (used with object)

Archaic.

fordid, fordone, fordoing

1. to do away with; kill; destroy.

2. to ruin; undo.

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fordo British  

/ fɔːˈduː /

verb

1. to destroy

2. to exhaust

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Etymology

Origin of fordo

before 900; Middle English fordon, Old English fordōn ( see fore-, do ¹); cognate with Dutch verdoen, Old High German fartuon

Example Sentences

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fordo fordid fordoing fordone

Juno, Thus hath your ire our lineage all fordo* *undone, ruined Save only me, and wretched Palamon, That Theseus martyreth in prison.

From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing

Forsooth this is a shameful custom of a lady, and if I had not a great matter in my hand I should fordo your evil customs.

From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 2 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Full she drad that God the Wreaker all mankind would fordo with water for his evil sins.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

Me forthinketh, said King Pellinore, that this shall me betide, but God may fordo well destiny.

From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

This eventful day, which, to quote Iago, was either to "make or fordo quite" the widow, found her as calm, cool and deliberate in the execution of her purpose as the Ancient himself.

From A Book of Remarkable Criminals by Irving, Henry Brodribb

Also Merlin let make there a bed, that there should never man lie therein but he went out of his wit, yet Launcelot de Lake fordid that bed through his noblesse.

From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Him longing fordid To wot whether the bold man he quick there shall meet In that mead-stead, e'en he the king of the Weders, All sick of his might, whereas he erst Itft him.

From The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats by Anonymous

And yet they are talking about our fathers being such good men, while they are cursing us fordoing precisely what they did, only to a less extent than they did.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political by Ingersoll, Robert Green

Now dimly lighted of the rising moon by turns they bore Gudruda down the mountain side, till at length, utterly fordone, they saw the fires of Middalhof.

From Eric Brighteyes by Haggard, Henry Rider

Who should have Priam's wealthy substance won, If watery Thetis had her child fordone?

From The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

Now they were slumbering, fordone with toil, but their goodly weapons lay by them on the ground, all orderly, in three rows, and by each man his pair of steeds.

From The Iliad by Homer

And now the demigod was merely Rudolph Musgrave again, and she was not afraid any longer, but only inexpressibly fordone.

From The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations by Cabell, James Branch

For there, with bodily anguish keen, With Indian heats at last fordone, With public toil and private teen— Thou sank'st, alone.

From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Arnold, Matthew