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belull

belull verb: to lull about; lull all over; lull completely.

Verb

belull (third-person singular simple present belulls, present participle belulling, simple past and past participle belulled)

  1. (transitive) To lull about; lull all over; lull completely.
    • Hebrew the profile, every line; / But as in haven fringed with palm, / Which Indian reefs embay from harm, / Belulled as in the vase the wine— / Red budded corals in remove, / Peep coy through quietudes above; […]1876, Herman Melville, “Canto XVII”, in Walter E. Bezanson, editor, Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land […], New York, N.Y.: Hendricks House, published 1960, →OCLC, part I (Jerusalem)...
    • […] the noon with a luscious repast, the afternoon with a play or a pallet repose, the evening with a wanton consort, accoutred with a rear-banket, to belull the abused soul with the sleep of an incessant surfeit.1992, Joan Larsen Klein, Daughters, wives, and widows

Forms of belull

third-person singular presentbelulls
present participlebelulling
past participlebelulled
pastbelulled

Origin of belull

From be- + lull.

Questions about belull

What does belull mean?
Belull means to lull about; lull all over; lull completely.
What part of speech is belull?
Belull is a verb.
What is the past tense of belull?
The past tense of belull is belulled.

Words near belull in the dictionary

  1. beluga whales
  2. belugas
  3. beluin
  4. beluine
  5. Belukha
  6. belull
  7. belulled
  8. belulling
  9. belulls
  10. belumosudil
  11. Belur

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