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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To overthrow.
  2. To make (the soles) sore by walking; bruise or batter by travel.

Wiktionary

  1. v. obsolete To bruise, hurt (the feet, hooves etc.) from walking.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. obsolete To make sore or bruise, as the feet by travel.
  2. v. obsolete To harass; to fatigue.

Etymologies

  1. Back-formation from surbated. (Wiktionary)

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  1. harass
  1. fatigue

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  1. surbet
  1. surbeat

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  • knitandpurl "She stood there with a ragged cob in her eyes and surbate hooves almost too tender to walk upon, but she was tall, and still awesome in her shabbiness."
    "Twins" by C.E. Morgan, in The New Yorker, June 14 & 21, 2010, page 130 Jul 12, 2010

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