fordone
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of fordone
First recorded in 1580–90; past participle of fordo
Example Sentences
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Thy people, O self-deluder, thou'lt leave in mourning for thee; Ay, all their lives they shall sorrow for thee, fordone and slain.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II by Payne, John
His body fordone with age is by them considered to be full of the spirit of wisdom.
From Seeds of Pine by Canuck, Janey
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
There, once more, rose frightful struggle; desperate attempt by the fordone Prussians to retake that Height.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19 by Carlyle, Thomas
He came across them as they fared slowly down the bent, looking weary and fordone.
From The Sundering Flood by Morris, May
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