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forfare

forfare

English

Verb

forfare ‎(third-person singular simple present forfares, present participle forfaring, simple past forfared or forfore, past participle forfared or forfaren)

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

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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 *fra- + *faraną, 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”). More at for-, fare.

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