Definitions
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- v. Simple past tense and past participle of fordo.
- adj. Exhausted; worn out; overcome.
- adj. Destroyed; utterly ruined.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Undone; ruined.
Etymologies
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Examples
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In very truth Heracles, though far away, has saved his comrades, fordone with thirst.
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No matter how fordone he might be, there was no mistaking the feel of Flame.
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Wherefore she turned and went hastily down the hall, and out-a-doors, and over the bridge, and ran fleet-foot down the rocky way whereby she had come, till she could run no further, and lay down under a great stone breathless and fordone; yet her heart upheld her and suffered her not to swoon, belike because she had given her limbs such hard work to do.
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One thing, moreover, had she noted now this long while, that once and again, it might be once every two moons, the witch-wife would arise in the dead of night and go forth from the house, and be away for a day, or two or three, or whiles more, and come back again weary and fordone; but never said she any word to Birdalone hereof.
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For them whom he have fordone make we newly thankful!
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Lamorak, are fordone, for Sir Tristram slew your lord, Sir Nabon, and his son.
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Shield, overmuch damage hast thou done to us this day, therefore return whither thou wilt, for here are no more will have ado with thee; for we repent sore that ever thou camest here, for by thee is fordone the old custom of this castle.
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"We are fordone," he said at last in a high, white voice.
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His sympathy was ever with the workingman and those who grind fordone at the wheel of labor.
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Your eldest daughters have fordone themselves, 344
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