"mischieve" meaning in English

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      "form": "mischieved",
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        "To destroy."
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          "ref": "1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book IX:",
          "text": "thenne sire Tristram wold make no lenger delayes but lasshed at sir Lamorak / & thus they foughte longe /[…]/ Thenne sir Tristram seid to sir Lamorak in alle my lyf mette I neuer with suche a knyght that was soo bygge and well brethed as ye be / therfore said syre Tristram hit were pyte / that ony of vs both shold here be meschyeued",
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        {
          "ref": "1650, Moses his choice, with his eye fixed upon heaven, page 54:",
          "text": "I have read of Augustine, that once by wandring out of his way, he escaped one who lay in wait to mischieve him;",
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          "ref": "1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 191:",
          "text": "[…] ſo when the two Ladders were taken down, no Man living could come down to me without miſchieving himſelf; […]",
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        "To damage, do harm to; to injure."
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        "(now Scotland) To damage, do harm to; to injure."
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