See destroyen in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"english": "And the nations were furious; then your fury came. It is time for the dead to be judged, to give rewards to your servants, prophets, saints, and those who fear your name, both small and large, and to destroy those who destroyed the Earth.",
"ref": "c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Apocalips 11:18, folio 121, recto, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:",
"text": "⁊ folkis ben wrooþ · ⁊ þi wraþþe cam · ⁊ tyme of deed men to be demed · ⁊ to ȝelde meede to þi ſeruauntis ⁊ pꝛophetis ⁊ halowis ⁊ dꝛedynge þi name · to ſmale ⁊ to grete / ⁊ to diſtrie hem þat coꝛrumpiden þe erþe",
"translation": "And the nations were furious; then your fury came. It is time for the dead to be judged, to give rewards to your servants, prophets, saints, and those who fear your name, both small and large, and to destroy those who destroyed the Earth.",
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"ref": "c. 1378-9, [William Langland], “[https://piers.chass.ncsu.edu/texts/W/P [Prologue]]”, in [Piers Plowman, A Treatise on Sin] (W, B-text), London, published c. 1400, →OCLC, folio 1, recto; republished as Thorlac Turville-Petre, Hoyt N. Duggan, editors, Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.15.17 (The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive; 2), SEENET, 2014, →ISBN:",
"text": "Some putten hem to þe plouȝ. pleıden ful selde / In settynge and sowynge. swonken ful harde. / And wonnen þat waſtours. wᵗ glotonẏe deſtruẏeþ.",
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"tags": [
"past",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "destroyeth",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "destroyed",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "destroye",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "destroyed",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "destroye",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "destroyen",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "destroye",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "destroyeden",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "destroyede",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "destroyeth",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "destroye",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "destroyynge",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "destroyende",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "destroyed",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "destroye",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "destru",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "destrue",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "destrui",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "destruye",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "destrye",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "distrie",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "dysstrye",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "destrewe",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Late-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"form": "distroy",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Late-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"form": "distroye",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Late-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"form": "distroyen",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Late-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"form": "distroyne",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Late-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"form": "distruy",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Late-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"form": "distruye",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Late-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"form": "distruyȝe",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Late-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"form": "dystre",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Late-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"form": "dystroye",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Late-Middle-English"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "verb",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "destroyen",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "destroyeth",
"2": "destroyinge",
"3": "destroyed"
},
"expansion": "destroyen (third-person singular simple present destroyeth, present participle destroyinge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle destroyed)",
"name": "enm-verb"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "stroy",
"pf": "de"
},
"name": "enm-conj-wk"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"To destroy or ruin:",
"To demolish, damage or ruin (an abstraction, building, or thing)"
],
"links": [
[
"destroy",
"destroy"
],
[
"ruin",
"ruin"
],
[
"demolish",
"demolish"
],
[
"damage",
"damage"
],
[
"abstraction",
"abstraction#English"
],
[
"building",
"building#English"
],
[
"thing",
"thing#English"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "merren"
},
{
"word": "stroyen"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
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176,
183
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
200,
207
],
[
218,
225
]
],
"english": "And the nations were furious; then your fury came. It is time for the dead to be judged, to give rewards to your servants, prophets, saints, and those who fear your name, both small and large, and to destroy those who destroyed the Earth.",
"ref": "c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Apocalips 11:18, folio 121, recto, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:",
"text": "⁊ folkis ben wrooþ · ⁊ þi wraþþe cam · ⁊ tyme of deed men to be demed · ⁊ to ȝelde meede to þi ſeruauntis ⁊ pꝛophetis ⁊ halowis ⁊ dꝛedynge þi name · to ſmale ⁊ to grete / ⁊ to diſtrie hem þat coꝛrumpiden þe erþe",
"translation": "And the nations were furious; then your fury came. It is time for the dead to be judged, to give rewards to your servants, prophets, saints, and those who fear your name, both small and large, and to destroy those who destroyed the Earth.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To destroy or ruin:",
"To devastate or ravage (a person/people or a place)"
],
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"destroy",
"destroy"
],
[
"ruin",
"ruin"
],
[
"devastate",
"devastate"
],
[
"ravage",
"ravage"
],
[
"person",
"person#English"
],
[
"people",
"people#English"
],
[
"place",
"place#English"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To destroy or ruin:",
"To kill or murder; to end the life of."
],
"links": [
[
"destroy",
"destroy"
],
[
"ruin",
"ruin"
],
[
"kill",
"kill"
],
[
"murder",
"murder"
],
[
"end",
"end"
],
[
"life",
"life"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "merren"
},
{
"word": "stroyen"
}
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To destroy or ruin:",
"To eliminate (an abstraction, disease or toxin)"
],
"links": [
[
"destroy",
"destroy"
],
[
"ruin",
"ruin"
],
[
"eliminate",
"eliminate"
],
[
"abstraction",
"abstraction#English"
],
[
"disease",
"disease#English"
],
[
"toxin",
"toxin#English"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "stroyen"
}
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To vex, afflict, or harass (a person or people)"
],
"links": [
[
"vex",
"vex"
],
[
"afflict",
"afflict"
],
[
"harass",
"harass"
],
[
"person",
"person#English"
],
[
"people",
"people#English"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "merren"
},
{
"word": "stroyen"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English terms with quotations",
"Middle English terms with rare senses"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
132,
141
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
136,
144
]
],
"english": "Some apply themselves to the plough; [they] very rarely played, / but worked so hard in planting and sowing, / and obtained what idlers squander through gluttony.",
"ref": "c. 1378-9, [William Langland], “[https://piers.chass.ncsu.edu/texts/W/P [Prologue]]”, in [Piers Plowman, A Treatise on Sin] (W, B-text), London, published c. 1400, →OCLC, folio 1, recto; republished as Thorlac Turville-Petre, Hoyt N. Duggan, editors, Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.15.17 (The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive; 2), SEENET, 2014, →ISBN:",
"text": "Some putten hem to þe plouȝ. pleıden ful selde / In settynge and sowynge. swonken ful harde. / And wonnen þat waſtours. wᵗ glotonẏe deſtruẏeþ.",
"translation": "Some apply themselves to the plough; [they] very rarely played, / but worked so hard in planting and sowing, / and obtained what idlers squander through gluttony.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To waste money or goods."
],
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[
"waste",
"waste"
],
[
"money",
"money"
],
[
"good",
"good"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare) To waste money or goods."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "stroyen"
}
],
"tags": [
"rare"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English terms with rare senses"
],
"glosses": [
"To confiscate or plunder (goods)"
],
"links": [
[
"confiscate",
"confiscate"
],
[
"plunder",
"plunder"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare) To confiscate or plunder (goods)"
],
"tags": [
"rare"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/dɛˈstrui̯ən/"
},
{
"ipa": "/dɛˈstriu̯ən/"
},
{
"ipa": "/dɛˈstriːən/"
},
{
"ipa": "/dɛː-/"
},
{
"ipa": "/di-/"
},
{
"ipa": "/dɛˈstryː-/",
"note": "Northern, Southern, West Midland"
}
],
"word": "destroyen"
}
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