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bemoils

bemoils is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bemoil.

Meaning of bemoil

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]...

Questions about bemoils

What is bemoils the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Bemoils is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bemoil.

Words near bemoils in the dictionary

  1. bemocking
  2. bemocks
  3. bemoil
  4. bemoiled
  5. bemoiling
  6. bemoils
  7. bemoist'ning
  8. bemoisten
  9. bemoisten'd
  10. bemoistened
  11. bemoistening

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bemoils (page history and authors); bemoil (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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