ett fördärv

fördärv in a sentence

• Sirenerna lockar sjömän i fördärvet med sin sång
  The sirens lure sailors to destruction with their song (concrete, fairly literary)
• Militärjuntan störtade landet i fördärvet
  The military junta plunged the country into ruin
• Girigheten blev hennes fördärv
  [The/her] greed became her undoing

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Origin

From Old Swedish fordærf.

Nearby common words

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