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bescrawled

bescrawled is the simple past and past participle of bescrawl.

Meaning of bescrawl

Verb

bescrawl (third-person singular simple present bescrawls, present participle bescrawling, simple past and past participle bescrawled)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To cover (something) with scrawls; to scribble over.
    • So far is it from the kenne of theſe wretched projectors of ours that beſcraull their Pamflets every day with new formes of government for our Church.1642 (indicated as 1641), John Milton, “That Church-governement is Prescrib’d in the Gospell, and that to Say Otherwise is Unsound”, in The Reason of Church-governement Urg’d against Prelaty […]...

Questions about bescrawled

What is bescrawled the simple past and past participle of?
Bescrawled is the simple past and past participle of bescrawl.

Words near bescrawled in the dictionary

  1. bescratch
  2. bescratched
  3. bescratches
  4. bescratching
  5. bescrawl
  6. bescrawled
  7. bescrawling
  8. bescrawls
  9. bescreen
  10. bescreened
  11. bescreening

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bescrawled (page history and authors); bescrawl (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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