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bedunces

bedunces is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bedunce.

Meaning of bedunce

Verb

bedunce (third-person singular simple present bedunces, present participle beduncing, simple past and past participle bedunced)

  1. (archaic, rare, transitive) To treat as, or reduce to, a dunce; to make stupid.
    • After he has sufficiently bedunced us through several pages, he at last has the tenderness to answer to our particular objections, and that with sufficient perplexity.1866, Oliver Goldsmith, The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, page 515

Questions about bedunces

What is bedunces the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Bedunces is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bedunce.

Words near bedunces in the dictionary

  1. bedumbed
  2. bedumbing
  3. bedumbs
  4. bedunce
  5. bedunced
  6. bedunces
  7. beduncing
  8. bedung
  9. bedunged
  10. bedunging
  11. bedungs

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