Forfare

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To go to ruin; be destroyed; perish. dialectal, intransitive, obsolete
  2. 2
    To destroy; ruin. dialectal, obsolete, transitive

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Etymology

From Middle English forfaren, from Old English forfaran (“to pass away, perish, lose, destroy, ruin, cause to perish, intercept, obstruct”), from Proto-Germanic *frafaraną, 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”).

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