stroy

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /stɹɔɪ/
Rhymes: -ɔɪ

Verb

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: Reprinted for Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:
  Dig garden , stroy mallow,
  Set willow and sallow

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for stroy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

Story, ryots, story, tyros

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