Fordo

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /fɔːˈduː/

Alternative forms

• foredo

Origin

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

Full definition of fordo

Verb

1. (obsolete) To kill, destroy.
• 1602, William Shakespeare, , act V scene 1:... This doth betoken
  The corpse they follow did with desperate hand
  Fordo it own life.
2. (obsolete) To annul, abolish, cancel.
• 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book IV:Me forthynketh said kynge Pellinore that this shalle me betyde but god may fordoo wel desteny.
3. (archaic) To do away with, undo; to ruin
4. (archaic) To overcome with fatigue; to exhaust.
• 1874, James Thomson (B.V.), ''worn faces (...)''they wander, wander,''Or sit foredone and desolately ponder''Through sleepless hours with heavy drooping head.

Anagrams

• Frodo