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Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To cause the death of; kill.
  • transitive verb To bring to ruin; destroy.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To do away; undo; destroy; ruin.
  • To exhaust, overpower, or overcome, as by fatigue.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To destroy; to undo; to ruin.
  • transitive verb To overcome with fatigue; to exhaust.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete To kill, destroy.
  • verb obsolete To annul, abolish, cancel.
  • verb archaic To do away with, undo; to ruin
  • verb archaic To overcome with fatigue; to exhaust.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English fordon, from Old English fordōn : for-, for- + dōn, to do; see dhē- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English fordon, from Old English fordōn ("to undo, bring to naught, ruin, destroy, abolish, kill, corrupt, seduce, defile"), from Proto-Germanic *fardōnan, *fradōnan (“to ruin, destroy”), equivalent to for- +‎ do. Cognate with Dutch verdoen ("to kill, waste"), German vertun ("to waste, spend, consume").

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synonyms (4)

Words with the same meaning

  1. destroy
  2. exhaust
  3. ruin
  4. undo

forms (2)

Forms

  1. fordoes
  2. fordoing

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  • whichbe commented on the word fordo

    To exhaust through overwork.

    May 16, 2008