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bescumber

bescumber verb: to sully with mud or dung.

Verb

bescumber (third-person singular simple present bescumbers, present participle bescumbering, simple past and past participle bescumbered)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To sully with mud or dung.
    • Where did you lift your leg up last? 'Gainst what? ... Did Block bescumber Statutes white Suit, wi' the Parchment Lace there? And Broker's satin doublet? All will out.1631, Ben Jonson, The Staple of News

Forms of bescumber

third-person singular presentbescumbers
present participlebescumbering
past participlebescumbered
pastbescumbered

Origin of bescumber

From be- + scumber.

Questions about bescumber

What does bescumber mean?
Bescumber means to sully with mud or dung.
What part of speech is bescumber?
Bescumber is a verb.
What is the past tense of bescumber?
The past tense of bescumber is bescumbered.

Words near bescumber in the dictionary

  1. bescribble
  2. bescribbled
  3. bescribbles
  4. bescribbling
  5. bescrub
  6. bescumber
  7. bescumbered
  8. bescumbering
  9. bescumbers
  10. beseat
  11. beseated

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