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bequiet

bequiet verb: to make quiet or still; silence; becalm; bestill.

Verb

bequiet (third-person singular simple present bequiets, present participle bequieting, simple past and past participle bequieted)

  1. (transitive) To make quiet or still; silence; becalm; bestill.
    • [...] that has formed almost without observation on the arena, begins chanting, in regular Gregorian mood, a metrical version of the story ; and this calls back the audience to itself, and, imperceptibly, at last soothes and bequiets it again.1910, Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, volume 58, Page, published 1020

Forms of bequiet

third-person singular presentbequiets
present participlebequieting
past participlebequieted
pastbequieted

Origin of bequiet

From be- + quiet.

Words formed from bequiet

  • bequieting

Questions about bequiet

What does bequiet mean?
Bequiet means to make quiet or still; silence; becalm; bestill.
What part of speech is bequiet?
Bequiet is a verb.
What is the past tense of bequiet?
The past tense of bequiet is bequieted.

Words near bequiet in the dictionary

  1. bequests
  2. bequethen
  3. Bequette
  4. Bequettes
  5. Bequia
  6. bequiet
  7. bequiffed
  8. bequiver
  9. bequivered
  10. bequivering
  11. bequivers

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