fordo

vt. 杀, 毁灭, 破坏

发音

UK /fɔː(ɹ)ˈduː/

词形变化

fordid fordoes 三单 fordoes fordoing fordone fordoing 现在分词 fordid 过去式 fordone 过去式 fordone 过去分词

别名

foredo

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To kill, destroy.

    废旧
  2. 2.

    To annul, abolish, cancel.

    废旧
  3. 3.

    To do away with, undo; to ruin.

    古体

    And yet there is at Alexandria a fair church, all white without paintures; and so be all the other churches that were of the Christian men, all white within, for the Paynims and the Saracens made them white for to fordo the images of saints that were painted on the walls.

  4. 4.

    To overcome with fatigue; to exhaust.

    古体

词源

From Middle English fordon, from Old English fordōn (“to undo, bring to naught, ruin, destroy, abolish, kill, corrupt, seduce, defile”), from Proto-West Germanic *fradōn (“to ruin, destroy”), equivalent to for- + do. Cognate with Saterland Frisian ferdwo (“to waste, consume”), West Frisian ferdwaan (“to waste”), Dutch verdoen (“to kill, waste”), German Low German verdoon (“to waste, consume”), German vertun (“to waste, spend, consume”).

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