Word.ws English Dictionary

benew

benew verb: to make like new; renew; refresh.

Verb

benew (third-person singular simple present benews, present participle benewing, simple past and past participle benewed)

  1. (archaic) To make like new; renew; refresh.
    • The youthful season's-wonted bloom Benews the beauty of each bow'r, And to the sweet-songed bird is come *Glad welcome from its darling flow'r,1822, “The Naturalist's Diary For April 1822”, in Time's Telescope, page 117
    • Thus far I have proceeded in a theme Benewed with no kind auspices:—to feel We are not what we have been, and to deem We are not what we should be, and to steel The heart against itself; and to conceal, - With a proud caution, love, or hate, or aught, — Passion or feeling, purpose, grief or zeal, —...1826, George Gordon Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt, page 101

Forms of benew

third-person singular presentbenews
present participlebenewing
past participlebenewed
pastbenewed

Origin of benew

From be- + new.

Questions about benew

What does benew mean?
Benew means to make like new; renew; refresh.
What part of speech is benew?
Benew is a verb.
What is the past tense of benew?
The past tense of benew is benewed.

Words near benew in the dictionary

  1. benevolentness
  2. benevolism
  3. benevolist
  4. benevolists
  5. benevolous
  6. benew
  7. Benewah County
  8. benewed
  9. benewing
  10. benews
  11. benexate

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: benew (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “benew.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/benew. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.