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fordote

fordote verb: to make foolish or doting.

Verb

fordote (third-person singular simple present fordotes, present participle fordoting, simple past and past participle fordoted)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To make foolish or doting.

Forms of fordote

third-person singular presentfordotes
present participlefordoting
past participlefordoted
pastfordoted

Origin of fordote

From for- + dote.

Questions about fordote

What does fordote mean?
Fordote means to make foolish or doting.
What part of speech is fordote?
Fordote is a verb.
What is the past tense of fordote?
The past tense of fordote is fordoted.

Words near fordote in the dictionary

  1. fordo
  2. fordoes
  3. fordoing
  4. fordone
  5. Fordonomics
  6. fordote
  7. Fordoun
  8. Fordow
  9. fordread
  10. fordreaded
  11. fordreading

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