Ge-deorfan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-deorfan

Substitute: I. to labour, do hard work :-- Oxanhyrde, hwæt wyrcst þú ? Eálá, hláford mín, micel ic gedeorfe (laboro), Coll. M. 20, 25. II. to perish, be destroyed, be wrecked (lit. or fig.), (a) of a person :-- Gedurfan naufragauerunt (duae faeminae a fide), Wrt. Voc. ii. 85, 60: 60, 68. Ðá hí oninnan þǽm sǽfærelde wǽron, þá gedu[r]fon (a letter is erased before the f) hí ealle and ádruncen obruta est et interfecta universa Aegypti multitude, Ors. 7; S. 38, 33. Heora scipa gedearf (r erased; gedraf, cc and xxx Romana classis infando nanfragio eversa est; nom de trecentis navibus ducentae et viginti perierunt, 4, 6; S. 176, 19. Hiora scipa gedurfon L and C centunt quinquaginta naves onerarias perdiderunt, 28. [Ha beon þurh me idoruen, Marh. 16, He was idoruen in alle his oðre wittes, A. R. 106. Þu bodest cwalm of orve oþer þat londfolc wurþ idorve, O. and N. 1158.] v. ge-dirfan. ge-deorfan

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