beghost

beghost verb: to endow with a spirit or ghost; haunt.

Verb

beghost (third-person singular simple present beghosts, present participle beghosting, simple past and past participle beghosted)

(transitive) To endow with a spirit or ghost; haunt.
- Was Hamlet's armour beghosted too?1910, Charles Francis Keary, The pursuit of reason
- For two centuries or more Littlecote, which is near Hungerford, was owned by the Darrell family, and it was they who finally beghosted not only the house but also the neighbourhood — even as far as the Hungerford to Salisbury road.1988, John Canning, 50 Great Ghost Stories
(transitive) To make a ghost of; teach (one) how to play a ghost.

Later she remembered them as ensorcelled houses; beghosted by their occupants' fears of disappointment, by the memories of their lives and other lives they might have had.1989, Ronald Frame, Penelope's hat:
[…] and the publication of the very interesting tale from which it is taken, we have been so beghosted both in prose and verse, […]2005, Charles Lloyd, Philip Cox, Anti-Jacobin novels: Edmund Oliver (1798):

third-person singular present	beghosts
present participle	beghosting
past participle	beghosted
past	beghosted

From be- + ghost. Compare bespirit, beghast.

What does beghost mean?: Beghost means to endow with a spirit or ghost; haunt.
How do you use beghost in a sentence?: Later she remembered them as ensorcelled houses; beghosted by their occupants' fears of disappointment, by the memories of their lives and other lives they might have had.
What part of speech is beghost?: Beghost is a verb.
What is the past tense of beghost?: The past tense of beghost is beghosted.

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