fordo
Americanverb (used with object)
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to do away with; kill; destroy.
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to ruin; undo.
verb
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to destroy
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to exhaust
Etymology
Origin of fordo
before 900; Middle English fordon, Old English fordōn ( see fore-, do 1); cognate with Dutch verdoen, Old High German fartuon
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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 D. Laing Purves
So benevolent is God to mankind, that he has set his angels over us as guardians, that they may not allow the fierce devils to fordo us.
From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric
Full she drad that God the Wreaker all mankind would fordo with water for his evil sins.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
Me forthinketh, said King Pellinore, that this shall me betide, but God may fordo well destiny.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Sir Thomas Malory
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 Henry Brodribb Irving
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 Sir Thomas Malory
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 Robert Green Ingersoll
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 John Payne
Now the hungry lion roars, And the wolf behowls the moon; Whilst the heavy ploughman snores, All with weary task fordone.
From English Songs and Ballads by T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson) Crosland
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 Thomas Carlyle
The way is long, and when he returns in the morning he looks fordone with weariness.
From Some Chinese Ghosts by Lafcadio Hearn
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 Henry Rider Haggard
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