English Explanatory Dictionary

fordone

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. simple past and past participle of fordo
adj
  1. Exhausted; overcome; worn out.
  2. Utterly ruined; destroyed.

Word forms

fordone more fordone most fordone

Etymology

From Middle English fordon, from Old English fordōn, from Proto-Germanic *fradōnaz, past participle of *fradōną (“to fordo; do away with”), equivalent to for- + done. Cognate with Saterland Frisian ferdäin, Dutch verdaan, German vertan.

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