fordo

[fawr-doo]

verb (used with object)

Archaic.

fordid, fordone, fordoing. 

1. to do away with; kill; destroy.

2. to ruin; undo.

fordo

/ fɔːˈduː /

verb

1. to destroy

2. to exhaust

Word History and Origins

Origin of fordo¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of fordo¹

Old English fordōn ; related to Old Saxon fardōn , Old High German fartuon , Dutch verdoen ; see _for- , _do ¹

Example Sentences

One of the targets was Fordo, a uranium enrichment plant hidden in a remote mountainside that is vital to Iran's nuclear ambitions.

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US intelligence assessments have been more cautious, with a leaked preliminary Defense Intelligence Agency report concluding that while all three sites - at Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan - were heavily damaged, they were not completely destroyed.

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The operation involved 125 US military aircraft and targeted three nuclear facilities: Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan.

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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in an interview Tuesday with CBS News that Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization was still evaluating the impact at the Fordo site, “but what we know so far is that the facilities have been seriously and heavily damaged.”

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Commercial satellite imagery, by contrast, shows a line of trucks coming and going from Fordo in the days ahead of the telegraphed strike, at the least suggesting there was indeed time to haul material away from the facility and others, like the one targeted at Isfahan, believed to have stored the country’s highly-enriched uranium.

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