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
Example Sentences
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Full she drad that God the Wreaker all mankind would fordo with water for his evil sins.
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
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 Purves, D. Laing
And then all they that longed to the castle came to him, and did him homage and fealty, praying him that he would abide there still a little while to fordo that foul custom.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir
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 Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham
Me forthinketh, said King Pellinore, that this shall me betide, but God may fordo well destiny.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir
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