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Forded vs Fordid - What's the difference?

forded | fordid |

As verbs the difference between forded and fordid

is that forded is (ford) while fordid is (fordo).

forded

English

Verb

(head)
  • (ford)

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    ford

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A location where a stream is shallow and the bottom has good footing, making it possible to cross from one side to the other with no bridge, by walking, riding, or driving through the water; a crossing.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • He swam the Esk river where ford there was none.
  • A stream; a current.
  • * Spenser
    • With water of the ford / Or of the clouds.
  • * Dryden
    • Permit my ghost to pass the Stygian ford .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cross a stream using a ford.

    • fordid

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (fordo)

    • fordo

    English

    Alternative forms

    * foredo

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To kill, destroy.
  • *1602 , (William Shakespeare), , act V scene 1:
  • *:This doth betoken / The corpse they follow did with desperate hand / Fordo it own life.
  • (obsolete) To annul, abolish, cancel.
  • *:
    • And that pena?ce god hath ordeyned yow for that dede / that he that ye shalle most truste to of ony man alyue / he shalle leue yow ther ye shalle be slayne / Me forthynketh said kynge Pellinore that this shalle me betyde but god may fordoo wel desteny
  • (archaic) To do away with, undo; to ruin.
  • (archaic) To overcome with fatigue; to exhaust.
  • *1874 , , (The City of Dreadful Night)
    • worn faces (...) / they wander, wander, / Or sit foredone and desolately ponder / Through sleepless hours with heavy drooping head.

    Quotations

    * (foredo)

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