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warrey

warrey is the alternative form of warray.

Meaning of warray

Verb

warray (third-person singular simple present warrays, present participle warraying, simple past and past participle warrayed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To wage war against.
    • And them long time before, great Nimrod was,
      That first the world with sword and fire warrayd […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of warrey

third-person singular presentwarreys
present participlewarreying
past participlewarreyed
pastwarreyed

Questions about warrey

What is warrey the alternative form of?
Warrey is the alternative form of warray.

Words near warrey in the dictionary

  1. Warrenton
  2. Warrenville
  3. warres
  4. warrest
  5. warreth
  6. warrey
  7. warreyed
  8. warreying
  9. warreys
  10. Warrgamay
  11. Warri

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