English Explanatory Dictionary

fordo

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To kill, destroy.
  2. To annul, abolish, cancel.
  3. To do away with, undo; to ruin.
  4. To overcome with fatigue; to exhaust.

Pronunciation

/fɔː(ɹ)ˈduː/

Word forms

fordo fordoes fordoing fordid fordone foredo

Etymology

From Middle English fordon, from Old English fordōn (“to undo, bring to naught, ruin, destroy, abolish, kill, corrupt, seduce, defile”), from Proto-West Germanic *fradōn (“to ruin, destroy”), equivalent to for- + do. Cognate with Saterland Frisian ferdwo (“to waste, consume”), West Frisian ferdwaan (“to waste”), Dutch verdoen (“to kill, waste”), German Low German verdoon (“to waste, consume”), German vertun (“to waste, spend, consume”).

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