SURBATE

v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To make sore or bruise, as the feet by travel. [Obs.] Lest they their fins should bruise, and surbate sore Their tender feet upon the stony ground. Spenser. Chalky land surbates and spoils oxen's feet. Mortimer.

2.
v.

To harass; to fatigue. [Obs.] Clarendon.


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