fordo
Verb
Verb Forms: fordid, fordone, fordoing, fordoes
- To destroy, ruin, or undo completely.
- To kill, destroy.
- To annul, abolish, cancel.
- To do away with, undo; to ruin.
- To overcome with fatigue; to exhaust.
Examples
- A misplaced tile could fordo an entire strategy in Words With Friends.
Origin / Etymology
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”).
Scrabble Score: 9
fordo: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordfordo: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
fordo: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary