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bemoil

bemoil verb: to soil or dirty.

Verb

bemoil (third-person singular simple present bemoils, present participle bemoiling, simple past and past participle bemoiled)

  1. (obsolete) To soil or dirty
    • Tell thou the tale: –but hadst thou not crossed me, thou shouldst have heard how her horse fell, and she under her horse; thou shouldst have heard, in how miry a place; how she was bemoiled; […].c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Forms of bemoil

third-person singular presentbemoils
present participlebemoiling
past participlebemoiled
pastbemoiled

Origin of bemoil

From be- + moil, from French mouiller to wet; but compare also Old English bimolen to soil, and English mole.

Questions about bemoil

What does bemoil mean?
Bemoil means to soil or dirty.
What part of speech is bemoil?
Bemoil is a verb.
What is the past tense of bemoil?
The past tense of bemoil is bemoiled.

Words near bemoil in the dictionary

  1. bemoccasined
  2. bemock
  3. bemocked
  4. bemocking
  5. bemocks
  6. bemoil
  7. bemoiled
  8. bemoiling
  9. bemoils
  10. bemoist'ning
  11. bemoisten

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