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- verb intransitive, rare To
perish ;come to nought orruin ; go wrong. - verb intransitive, rare To
degenerate (into);become (something inferior);come to .
Etymologies
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From Middle English forworthen, from Old English forweorþan ("to perish, pass away, vanish; deteriorate, sicken"), from Proto-Germanic *frawerþanan (“to perish, come to ruin”), equivalent to for- (“away, wrongly, badly”) + worth (“to turn into, become”).
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