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stroys

stroys is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 stroys

What is stroys the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Stroys is the third-person singular simple present indicative of stroy.

Words near stroys in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stroys (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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