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Mischieve

//mɪsˈtʃiːv// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To destroy. obsolete
  2. 2
    To damage, do harm to; to injure. Scotland

    "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"

Etymology

From Middle English myscheven, from Old French meschever, from mes- + chever.

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