forworth.
To perish, forfare; come to nought or ruin; go wrong.
Meaning & usage
To perish, forfare; come to nought or ruin; go wrong.
To degenerate (into); become (something inferior); come to.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English forworthen, from Old English forweorþan (“to perish, pass away, vanish; deteriorate, sicken”), from Proto-Germanic *frawerþaną (“to perish, come to ruin”), equivalent to for- (“away, wrongly, badly”) + worth (“to turn into, become”). Cognate with Dutch verworden.
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