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beprosing

beprosing is the present participle and gerund of beprose.

Meaning of beprose

Verb

beprose (third-person singular simple present beproses, present participle beprosing, simple past and past participle beprosed)

  1. (rare, transitive) To reduce to prose.
    • Such was his doom impos'd by Heaven's decree, / With ears that hear not, eyes that shall not see, / The low to raise, to level the Sublime, / To blast all Beauty, and beprose all Rhyme.1733, David Mallet, Verbal Criticism

Questions about beprosing

What is beprosing the present participle and gerund of?
Beprosing is the present participle and gerund of beprose.

Words near beprosing in the dictionary

  1. bepranked
  2. bepridil
  3. beprose
  4. beprosed
  5. beproses
  6. beprosing
  7. BEPS
  8. Bepton
  9. bepucker
  10. bepuddle
  11. bepuddled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: beprosing (page history and authors); beprose (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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