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surbates

surbates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of surbate.

Meaning of surbate

Verb

surbate (third-person singular simple present surbates, present participle surbating, simple past and past participle surbated)

  1. (obsolete) To bruise, hurt (the feet, hooves etc.) from walking.
    • they […] let their temed fishes softly swim / Along the margent of the fomy shore, / Least they their finnes should bruze, and surbate sore / Their tender feet vpon the stony ground […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about surbates

What is surbates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Surbates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of surbate.

Words near surbates in the dictionary

  1. surbasements
  2. surbases
  3. surbasing
  4. surbate
  5. surbated
  6. surbates
  7. surbating
  8. surbeat
  9. surbeated
  10. surbeaten
  11. surbeating

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