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behell

behell verb: to torture as with pains of hell; give hell (to).

Verb

behell (third-person singular simple present behells, present participle behelling, simple past and past participle behelled)

  1. (ambitransitive) To torture as with pains of hell; give hell (to).
    • Did behell and rack him ― Hewyt.
    • Thus a mechanic who feels himself electrically influenced speaks of "brain-kilowatt-hours", or a resistive patient talks of "behelling" injections.1936, Frederick Walker Mott, Archives of neurology and psychiatry

Forms of behell

third-person singular presentbehells
present participlebehelling
past participlebehelled
pastbehelled

Origin of behell

From be- + hell.

Questions about behell

What does behell mean?
Behell means to torture as with pains of hell; give hell (to).
What part of speech is behell?
Behell is a verb.
What is the past tense of behell?
The past tense of behell is behelled.

Words near behell in the dictionary

  1. beheld
  2. beheldest
  3. beheldst
  4. Beheler
  5. Behelers
  6. behell
  7. behelm
  8. behelmed
  9. behelmeted
  10. behelming
  11. behelms

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