English Explanatory Dictionary

forfare

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To go to ruin; be destroyed; perish.
  2. To destroy; ruin.

Word forms

forfare forfares forfaring forfared forfore forfaren

Etymology

From Middle English forfaren, from Old English forfaran (“to pass away, perish, lose, destroy, ruin, cause to perish, intercept, obstruct”), from Proto-Germanic *frafaraną, equivalent to for- + fare. Cognate with Scots forfar (“to go amiss, decay, perish”), Old Frisian forfara (“to die”), German verfahren (“to use up, spend, lose one's way”), Old Danish forfare (“to perish”).

Related words

forfairn
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