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bechat

bechat verb: to chat over or about; discuss.

Verb

bechat (third-person singular simple present bechats, present participle bechatting, simple past and past participle bechatted)

  1. (transitive) To chat over or about; discuss.
    • [...] whose impartial sobriety of opinion is only equalled by its sagacity and penetration, never deceived. And thus bechatting, of a sudden the stranger demands of me, if I had read, seen, or heard of the so-called Romance of "WHITE-FRIARS!"1845, Emma Robinson, Whitehall
  2. (transitive) To bewitch.

Synonyms of bechat

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Forms of bechat

third-person singular presentbechats
present participlebechatting
past participlebechatted
pastbechatted

Origin of bechat

From be- (“over, about, concerning”) + chat.

Questions about bechat

What does bechat mean?
Bechat means to chat over or about; discuss.
What part of speech is bechat?
Bechat is a verb.
What is the past tense of bechat?
The past tense of bechat is bechatted.

Words near bechat in the dictionary

  1. becharitas
  2. becharm
  3. becharmed
  4. becharming
  5. becharms
  6. bechat
  7. bechatting
  8. Bechdel
  9. Bechdel Test
  10. Bechdel-Wallace test
  11. Bechdels

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