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bemeaned

bemeaned is the simple past and past participle of bemean.

Meaning of bemean

Verb (1)

bemean (third-person singular simple present bemeans, present participle bemeaning, simple past and past participle bemeant)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To mean; signify; inform.

Verb (2)

bemean (third-person singular simple present bemeans, present participle bemeaning, simple past and past participle bemeaned)

  1. To make mean or base, demean.
    • I fished carefully, used wet flies and dry, all that I had in my book, and even bemeaned myself by baiting a plain hook with a grasshopper.1973, Alfred Bertram Guthrie, Wild Pitch (Fiction), G. K. Hall, →ISBN, page 85
    Synonyms:
    demean

Questions about bemeaned

What is bemeaned the simple past and past participle of?
Bemeaned is the simple past and past participle of bemean.

Words near bemeaned in the dictionary

  1. Bembry
  2. Bembrys
  3. bembé
  4. beme
  5. bemean
  6. bemeaned
  7. bemeaning
  8. bemeans
  9. bemeant
  10. bemedal
  11. bemedaled

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