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belute

belute verb: to spatter, slop or sully, as with mud.

Verb

belute (third-person singular simple present belutes, present participle beluting, simple past and past participle beluted)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To spatter, slop or sully, as with mud.
    • In short, never was a Dr. Slop so beluted, and so transubstantiated, since that affair came into fashion.1760, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Penguin, published 2003, page 116

Forms of belute

third-person singular presentbelutes
present participlebeluting
past participlebeluted
pastbeluted

Origin of belute

From be- + lute.

Questions about belute

What does belute mean?
Belute means to spatter, slop or sully, as with mud.
What part of speech is belute?
Belute is a verb.
What is the past tense of belute?
The past tense of belute is beluted.

Words near belute in the dictionary

  1. belulls
  2. belumosudil
  3. Belur
  4. Beluran
  5. belurk
  6. belute
  7. belutes
  8. beluting
  9. Belux
  10. belvedere
  11. belvedered

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