stroy
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stroy (third-person singular simple present stroys, present participle stroying, simple past and past participle stroyed)
- (obsolete) To destroy.
- c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ix]:
- How I convey my shame out of thine eyes
By looking back what I have left behind
Stroy'd in dishonour
- 1557 February 13, Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie., London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:
- Dig garden, stroy mallow,
Set willow and sallow
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- “stroy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.