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bemerd

bemerd verb: to befoul with excrement.

Verb

bemerd (third-person singular simple present bemerds, present participle bemerding, simple past and past participle bemerded)

  1. (rare, transitive) To befoul with excrement.
    • And he and his, standing close beneath the wall, and little expecting so sudden and ill an answer, fared shamefully, being all well soused and bemerded with filth and lye. Therewith went up great shouts of laughter from the walls.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, chapter 152, in The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC
    • […] he felt, having soundly and legitimately bemerded that face in imagination […]1968, Anthony Burgess, Enderby Outside
  2. (figuratively, rare, transitive) To tarnish or slander.
    • […] they are produced in great abundance, with the twin objects of inducing electors to abstain, and of bemerding candidates of all parties.1897, The New Review
    • The State gets irritated by such childish people, hunts them down and robs them of love, bemerds their dignity and honor, and puts signs on them […]1977, The Landsmen

Examples of bemerd in a sentence

  • ...namely, that it's irrational, random, and befouled and bemerded with the residues of ancient cruelty and superstition.2004, Christopher Hitchens, Love, poverty, and war: journeys and essays:
  • […] so now the colossal fabric of Scientific Utilitarianism, offspring of a distorted and epileptic steam-mania, has bemerded us with its panting slime […]2004, Peter Wollen, Paris/Manhattan: writings on art:

Forms of bemerd

third-person singular presentbemerds
present participlebemerding
past participlebemerded
pastbemerded

Origin of bemerd

From be- + merd.

Questions about bemerd

What does bemerd mean?
Bemerd means to befoul with excrement.
How do you use bemerd in a sentence?
...namely, that it's irrational, random, and befouled and bemerded with the residues of ancient cruelty and superstition.
What part of speech is bemerd?
Bemerd is a verb.
What is the past tense of bemerd?
The past tense of bemerd is bemerded.

Words near bemerd in the dictionary

  1. Bements
  2. bemercied
  3. bemercies
  4. bemercy
  5. bemercying
  6. bemerd
  7. bemerded
  8. bemerding
  9. bemerds
  10. bemes
  11. bemesetron

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