forfare
English
editEtymology
editFrom 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”).
Verb
editforfare (third-person singular simple present forfares, present participle forfaring, simple past forfared or forfore, past participle forfared or forfaren)
- (intransitive, dialectal or obsolete) To go to ruin; be destroyed; perish.
- (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To destroy; ruin.
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