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To make sore or bruise, as the feet by travel.

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  1. v. t. To make sore or bruise, as the feet by travel.
  2. v. t. To harass; to fatigue.
  3. 1. 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. To harass; to fatigue. [Obs.] Clarendon.