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stroying

stroying is the present participle and gerund of stroy.

Meaning of stroy

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...

Questions about stroying

What is stroying the present participle and gerund of?
Stroying is the present participle and gerund of stroy.

Words near stroying in the dictionary

  1. stroy-good
  2. stroy-goods
  3. stroyed
  4. stroygood
  5. stroygoods
  6. stroying
  7. stroys
  8. Strozier
  9. Stroziers
  10. strozzapreti
  11. strs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stroying (page history and authors); stroy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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