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fordone

[ fawr-duhn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

, Archaic.

Origin of fordone¹

First recorded in 1580–90; past participle of fordo

He moaned again, but so hopelessly, as being so weary and fordone, that Abbot Milo began to blubber out loud.

Many of the men wore out before dawn and were fordone: hands frozen, feet frozen, lips and throat frozen—heart frozen.

Two days he battled thus with storm and blindness, and wanhope of his life; for he was growing weak and fordone.

His sympathy was ever with the workingman and those who grind fordone at the wheel of labor.

He came across them as they fared slowly down the bent, looking weary and fordone.

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