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[edit]Etymology
[edit]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.
Verb
[edit]fordone
- simple past and past participle of fordo
Adjective
[edit]fordone (comparative more fordone, superlative most fordone)
- Exhausted; overcome; worn out.
- 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet LXXX”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, signature F, verso:
- After ſo long a race as I haue run / Through Faery land, vvhich theſe ſix books cõpile [compile], / giue leaue to reſt me being halfe fordonne, / and gather to my ſelfe nevv breath avvhile.
- Utterly ruined; destroyed.
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