bemonsters

bemonsters is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bemonster.

Meaning of bemonster

bemonster (third-person singular simple present bemonsters, present participle bemonstering, simple past and past participle bemonstered)

(transitive) To make monstrous or like a monster; make hideous; deform.
- Thou changed and self-cover’d thing, for shame!
  Bemonster not thy feature!c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
(transitive) To fill or cover with monsters.
- So leap’d the men, half-sepulchred in sack,
  Up-swinging, with their shapes be-monstring sky,1812, William Tennant, Anster Fair, Edinburgh: George Goldie, 2nd edition, 1814, Canto 4, Stanza 21, p. 119
(transitive) To regard or treat (someone) as a monster; to call (someone) a monster.
- It […] ends with a crude but forceful intensification of the lust and blood of the Italian novella, complicated with the popular theme of scandalising the Pope and bemonstering the Jew.1921, R. H. Case, Review of The Percy Reprints: The Unfortunate Traveller by Thomas Nashe, The Modern Language Review, Volume 16, No. 1, January 1921, p. 77

What is bemonsters the third-person singular simple present indicative of?: Bemonsters is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bemonster.

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