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bemeaning

bemeaning is the present participle and gerund 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 bemeaning

What is bemeaning the present participle and gerund of?
Bemeaning is the present participle and gerund of bemean.

Words near bemeaning in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bemeaning (page history and authors); bemean (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.

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