forfare

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verb

To go to ruin; be destroyed; perish.

OriginMiddle English forfaren ← Old English forfaran ← Proto-Germanic *frafaraną →
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Meanings

verbforfare (third-person singular simple present forfares, present participle forfaring, simple past forfared or forfore, past participle forfared or forfore or forfaren)

present singular third person forfares · participle present forfaring · past forfared · past forfore · participle past forfared · participle past forfore · participle past forfaren

  1. dialectalintransitiveobsoleteTo go to ruin; be destroyed; perish.
  2. dialectalobsoletetransitiveTo destroy; ruin.

Synonyms & antonyms

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Origin

  1. Proto-Germanic*frafaraną
  2. Old Englishforfaran“to pass away, perish, lose, destroy, ruin, cause to perish, intercept, obstruct”
  3. Middle Englishforfaren
  4. Englishforfare

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”).

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“forfare.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/forfare. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “forfare,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/forfare.

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