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stroy

/stɹɔɪ/

stroy verb: to destroy.

Verb

stroy (third-person singular simple present stroys, present participle stroying, simple past and past participle stroyed)

  1. (obsolete) To destroy.
    • How I convey my shame out of thine eyes
      By looking back what I have left behind
      Stroy'd in dishonourc. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
    • Dig garden, stroy mallow,
      Set willow and sallow1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […]...

Forms of stroy

third-person singular presentstroys
present participlestroying
past participlestroyed
paststroyed

Origin of stroy

Inherited from Middle English stroyen, an apheretic form of destroyen (modern English destroy).

Words formed from stroy

Words that rhyme with stroy

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Questions about stroy

What does stroy mean?
Stroy means to destroy.
What part of speech is stroy?
Stroy is a verb.
How do you pronounce stroy?
Stroy is pronounced /stɹɔɪ/.
What is the past tense of stroy?
The past tense of stroy is stroyed.

Words near stroy in the dictionary

  1. strowling
  2. strowls
  3. strown
  4. strows
  5. Stroxton
  6. stroy
  7. stroy-good
  8. stroy-goods
  9. stroyed
  10. stroygood
  11. stroygoods

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