Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To go to ruin; be destroyed; perish.
- To destroy; ruin.
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- verb intransitive To
go toruin ; bedestroyed ;perish . - verb transitive To
destroy ;ruin .
Etymologies
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From Middle English forfaren, from Old English forfaran ("to pass away, perish, lose, destroy, ruin, cause to perish, intercept, obstruct"), from Proto-Germanic *fra- + *faranan, 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"). More at for-, fare.
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