(obsolete, intransitive) To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
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This winter’s weather it waxeth cold, / And frost it freezeth on every hill, / And Boreas blows his blast so bold / That all our cattle are like to spill.
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16th century, Anonymous, "The Old Cloak", st. 1, as reported in The Oxford Book of English Verse (1900):