Fordo Definition
fôrdo͝o
fordid, fordoes, fordoing, fordone, foredid, foredoes, foredoing, foredone
verb
To destroy, kill, ruin, etc.
Webster's New World
To cause to become exhausted.
Webster's New World
Origin of Fordo
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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 for- + do. Cognate with Dutch verdoen (“to kill, waste”), German vertun (“to waste, spend, consume”).
From Wiktionary
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Middle English fordon from Old English fordōn for- for- dōn to do dhē- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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