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beshade

beshade verb: to shadow; cast a shadow over.

Verb

beshade (third-person singular simple present beshades, present participle beshading, simple past and past participle beshaded)

  1. (transitive) To shadow; cast a shadow over.
    • Light Fumitory, Parsly, Burnet's blade, And winding leafe his crispy Locks beshade: Hee's light and lively, all in Turns and Tricks; In his great Round, hee many small doth mix... ― Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (translation by Joshua Sylvester, 1633)
    Synonyms:
    beshadow, shade, shadow

Synonyms of beshade

Forms of beshade

third-person singular presentbeshades
present participlebeshading
past participlebeshaded
pastbeshaded

Origin of beshade

From Middle English bischaden, bischadewen, bischadowen, equivalent to be- + shade and/or be- + shadow. Cognate with Saterland Frisian beskaadje (“to shadow”), Dutch beschaduwen (“to shade, shadow”), German beschatten (“to shadow”).

Questions about beshade

What does beshade mean?
Beshade means to shadow; cast a shadow over.
What part of speech is beshade?
Beshade is a verb.
What is the past tense of beshade?
The past tense of beshade is beshaded.

Words near beshade in the dictionary

  1. Besford
  2. beshackle
  3. beshackled
  4. beshackles
  5. beshackling
  6. beshade
  7. beshades
  8. beshadow
  9. beshadowed
  10. beshadowing
  11. beshadows

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