💀 To destroy 😩 To exhaust

to fordo

9.9

To make someone very tired by hard work or hardship

verb
/fɔrˈdoʊ/

Archaic

: agotar

The endless labor would fordo even the most resilient workers by nightfall.

Examples

Such heavy burdens can fordo a person both in body and spirit.
She feared the journey would fordo her before she reached her destination.
The relentless work fordoes him.
She felt forded after the long journey.
The endless labor would fordo even the most resilient workers by nightfall.
She feared the journey would fordo her before she reached her destination.
Such heavy burdens can fordo a person both in body and spirit.

Synonyms

to wear out

vsto fordo

19 2.7

To make a person very tired or a thing stop working by using it too much

is an older, literary term rather than neutral everyday language

to fatigue

vsto fordo

11 4.6

To make someone very tired by hard work or long effort

is framed as archaic or literary, not a general modern term

to tucker

vsto fordo

Informal

8 9.4

To make someone very tired

is formal or literary in tone rather than informal speech

Antonyms

to refresh

50 2.8

Make someone or something feel full of energy and less tired

to revitalize

45 4.8

To give new life and energy to something

How Exhausted

to fordo

Archaic

9.9

to exhaust

194 3.2

to wear out

19 2.7

to tire

23 1.0

Surface Forms

fordo infinitive

forded past

forded past participle

fording present participle

fordoes third person singular

Morphology

fordo = do (opaque) = for + do + for

The prefix 'for-' has an archaic intensive/negative sense that is not productive in modern English, so the compound meaning 'exhaust completely' is not deducible by most learners from 'for' + 'do'.

Etymology

The word fordo comes from old parts for- meaning 'completely' (seen in forget) and do meaning 'to do' or 'to use up'. So to fordo someone is to 'use them up completely', which is why it can mean to tire or wear someone out.