fordone

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adjective

Exhausted; overcome; worn out.

OriginMiddle English fordon ← Old English fordōn ← Proto-Germanic *fradōnaz →
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Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of fordo
adjectivefordone (comparative more fordone, superlative most fordone)

comparative more fordone · superlative most fordone

  1. Exhausted; overcome; worn out.

    After ſo long a race as I haue run / Through Faery land, vvhich thoſe ſix books cõpile [compile] / giue leaue to reſt me being halfe fordonne, / and gather to my ſelfe nevv breath avvhile.

    1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet LXXX”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, signature F, verso
  2. Utterly ruined; destroyed.

Origin

  1. Proto-Germanic*fradōnaz
  2. Old Englishfordōn
  3. Middle Englishfordon
  4. Englishfordone

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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