Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to fordo
Participle: fordoed
Gerund: fordoing
Indicative
Present
| I | fordo |
| you | fordo |
| he;she;it | fordoes |
| we | fordo |
| you | fordo |
| they | fordo |
Perfect
| I | have fordoed |
| you | have fordoed |
| he;she;it | has fordoed |
| we | have fordoed |
| you | have fordoed |
| they | have fordoed |
Past
| I | fordoed |
| you | fordoed |
| he;she;it | fordoed |
| we | fordoed |
| you | fordoed |
| they | fordoed |
Pluperfect
| I | had fordoed |
| you | had fordoed |
| he;she;it | had fordoed |
| we | had fordoed |
| you | had fordoed |
| they | had fordoed |
Future
| I | will fordo |
| you | will fordo |
| he;she;it | will fordo |
| we | will fordo |
| you | will fordo |
| they | will fordo |
Future Perfect
| I | will have fordoed |
| you | will have fordoed |
| he;she;it | will have fordoed |
| we | will have fordoed |
| you | will have fordoed |
| they | will have fordoed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | fordo |
| you | fordo |
| he;she;it | fordo |
| we | fordo |
| you | fordo |
| they | fordo |
Perfect
| I | have fordoed |
| you | have fordoed |
| he;she;it | have fordoed |
| we | have fordoed |
| you | have fordoed |
| they | have fordoed |
Imperfect
| I | fordoed |
| you | fordoed |
| he;she;it | fordoed |
| we | fordoed |
| you | fordoed |
| they | fordoed |
Pluperfect
| I | had fordoed |
| you | had fordoed |
| he;she;it | had fordoed |
| we | had fordoed |
| you | had fordoed |
| they | had fordoed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would fordo |
| you | would fordo |
| he;she;it | would fordo |
| we | would fordo |
| you | would fordo |
| they | would fordo |
Perfect
| I | would have fordoed |
| you | would have fordoed |
| he;she;it | would have fordoed |
| we | would have fordoed |
| you | would have fordoed |
| they | would have fordoed |
Imperative
| you | fordo |
| we | Let's fordo |
| you | fordo |
Verbs conjugated like 'fordo'
abash,
abolish,
abroach,
accomplish,
accroach,
address,
admix,
admonish,
ado,
adpress,
affamish,
affix,
alloo,
amass,
ambush,
anguish,
annex,
appeach,
appears,
approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'fordo'
ford,
forgo,
cord,
cordon,
fard,
fold,
folio,
fond,
fonde,
food,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
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”). See: Middle English '
fordon', Dutch '
verdoen', German, old spelling '
vertun'.
Verbs referencing "fordo"
Dutch
verdoen, German, old spelling
vertun, Old Dutch farduon.
Sample Sentences
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[…]This doth betoken / The coarse they follow did with desperate hand / Foredoe it’s own life. [c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:]
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And that penaūce 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 [1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter XV, in Le Morte Darthur, book III:]
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And yet there is at Alexandria a fair church, all white without paintures; and so be all the other churches that were of the Christian men, all white within, for the Paynims and the Saracens made them white for to fordo the images of saints that were painted on the walls. [1900, John Mandeville, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (version in modern spelling)]
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worn faces (...) / they wander, wander, / Or sit foredone and desolately ponder / Through sleepless hours with heavy drooping head. [1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night:]
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Foredone by the agitation of the past hour, he did not at once realise what it was that he saw. [1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:]