forfare

From Middle English forfaren, from Old English forfaran (“to pass away, perish, lose, destroy, ruin, cause to perish, intercept, obstruct”), from Proto-Germanic *frafaraną, 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”).

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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