| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | for·do |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  fôr-d  , f r- |
| VARIANT FORMS: | also fore·do |
| TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: for·did (-d d), for·done (-d n), for·do·ing, for·does (-dz)
Archaic 1. To bring to ruin; destroy. 2. To exhaust utterly. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English fordon, from Old English fordn : for-, for- + dn, to do; see dh - in Appendix I.
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