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Fordid vs Fordim - What's the difference?

fordid | fordim |

As verbs the difference between fordid and fordim

is that fordid is (fordo) while fordim is (obsolete) to dim; darken; obscure.

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)

    Anagrams

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    fordim

    English

    Verb

    (fordimm)
  • (obsolete) To dim; darken; obscure.