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bemedalling

bemedalling is the present participle and gerund of bemedal.

Meaning of bemedal

Verb

bemedal (third-person singular simple present bemedals, present participle (US) bemedaling or (UK) bemedalling, simple past and past participle (US) bemedaled or (UK) bemedalled)

  1. (transitive) To award a medal to; to adorn with a medal.
    • They had come, by Himmler's order, to bemedal the camp commandant of Terezin, which had played its special role so splendidly in achieving the final solution of the Jewish problem.1998, Aaron Kramer, Saul Lishinsky, The Last Lullaby: Poetry from the Holocaust, page 7

Questions about bemedalling

What is bemedalling the present participle and gerund of?
Bemedalling is the present participle and gerund of bemedal.

Words near bemedalling in the dictionary

  1. bemeant
  2. bemedal
  3. bemedaled
  4. bemedaling
  5. bemedalled
  6. bemedalling
  7. bemedals
  8. bemeet
  9. bemegride
  10. Bemelmans
  11. Bemelmanses

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