Word.ws English Dictionary

behew

behew verb: to carve; adorn; embellish.

Verb

behew (third-person singular simple present behews, present participle behewing, simple past behewed, past participle behewn)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To carve; adorn; embellish.

Forms of behew

third-person singular presentbehews
present participlebehewing
pastbehewed
past participlebehewn

Origin of behew

From Middle English behewen, from Old English behēawan (“to cut, chip, chop, beat, cut off from, deprive of”), equivalent to be- + hew.

Questions about behew

What does behew mean?
Behew means to carve; adorn; embellish.
What part of speech is behew?
Behew is a verb.
What is the past tense of behew?
The past tense of behew is behewed.

Words near behew in the dictionary

  1. behest
  2. behest loan
  3. behested
  4. behesting
  5. behests
  6. behew
  7. behews
  8. behierite
  9. behight
  10. behighted
  11. behighting

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: behew (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “behew.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/behew. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.