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becompliment

becompliment verb: to compliment.

Verb

becompliment (third-person singular simple present becompliments, present participle becomplimenting, simple past and past participle becomplimented)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To compliment.
    • How many times have we heard the same persons say, "I never heard the Hallelujah Chorus go so well before!" If all other becomplimented country amateurs were blessed with simplicity as great and memories as retentive as Mr. GARDINER possesses […]1839, The Spectator, volume 12, page 161
    • […] the chief magistrate of the little town now thought fit to becompliment me by the mission of two of his colleagues, who were also secretaries of the Museum, which they proposed to show me.1832, Hermann F. H. Pückler-Muskau (Fürst von.), Tour in England, Ireland and France in the years 1828 and 1829 (page 195)

Forms of becompliment

third-person singular presentbecompliments
present participlebecomplimenting
past participlebecomplimented
pastbecomplimented

Origin of becompliment

be- + compliment

Questions about becompliment

What does becompliment mean?
Becompliment means to compliment.
What part of speech is becompliment?
Becompliment is a verb.
What is the past tense of becompliment?
The past tense of becompliment is becomplimented.

Words near becompliment in the dictionary

  1. becoming one flesh
  2. becoming the Joker
  3. becomingly
  4. becomingness
  5. becomings
  6. becompliment
  7. becomplimented
  8. becomplimenting
  9. becompliments
  10. Becontree
  11. becoomed

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