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surbeat

surbeat is the obsolete form 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

Forms of surbeat

third-person singular presentsurbeats
present participlesurbeating
pastsurbeated
past participlesurbeaten

Questions about surbeat

What is surbeat the obsolete form of?
Surbeat is the obsolete form of surbate.

Words near surbeat in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: surbeat (page history and authors); surbate (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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