fordo verb trans. [fɔ:'du:] arch. Also foredo. Pa. t. -did [-'dɪd]; pa. pple -done [-'dʌn].
[Old English fordōn = Old Saxon fardōn (Dutch verdoen), Old High German fartuon (German vertun), from base of FOR-¹, DO verb.]
1. Kill; put an end to (life). OE.
■ Shakespeare Hamlet This doth betoken The corse they follow did with desperate hand fordo it own life.

2. Destroy, ruin, spoil, (a place, thing, person); lay waste to (land). OE.

3. a. Abolish (an institution); annul (a law). OE-M19.
b. Do away with, remove, (an immaterial object, esp. sin). ME.

4. Undo; make powerless, counteract, (poison, temptation, etc.). ME-E17.

5. As fordone pa. pple. Exhausted, tired out. M16.
■ M. Arnold With Indian heats at last fordone.

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