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bescrawling

bescrawling is the present participle and gerund 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 bescrawling

What is bescrawling the present participle and gerund of?
Bescrawling is the present participle and gerund of bescrawl.

Words near bescrawling in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bescrawling (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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