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bemeans

bemeans is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 bemeans

What is bemeans the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Bemeans is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bemean.

Words near bemeans in the dictionary

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

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