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fordo

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Verb — To kill or destroy something completely.

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Etymology

Came 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. It is cognate with Saterland Frisian ferdwo (“to waste, consume”), West Frisian ferdwaan (“to wast...

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