fordone
[ fawr-duhn ]
adjectiveArchaic.
exhausted with fatigue.
Origin of fordone
1First recorded in 1580–90; past participle of fordo
- Also fore·done .
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How to use fordone in a sentence
He moaned again, but so hopelessly, as being so weary and fordone, that Abbot Milo began to blubber out loud.
The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay | Maurice HewlettMany of the men wore out before dawn and were fordone: hands frozen, feet frozen, lips and throat frozen—heart frozen.
Billy Topsail, M.D. | Norman DuncanTwo days he battled thus with storm and blindness, and wanhope of his life; for he was growing weak and fordone.
The Wood Beyond the World | William MorrisHis sympathy was ever with the workingman and those who grind fordone at the wheel of labor.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 5 (of 14) | Elbert HubbardHe came across them as they fared slowly down the bent, looking weary and fordone.
The Sundering Flood | William Morris
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