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beshadow

beshadow verb: to cast a shadow around, about, or over; overshadow.

Verb

beshadow (third-person singular simple present beshadows, present participle beshadowing, simple past and past participle beshadowed)

  1. (transitive) To cast a shadow around, about, or over; overshadow.
    Synonyms:
    beshade

Synonyms of beshadow

Forms of beshadow

third-person singular presentbeshadows
present participlebeshadowing
past participlebeshadowed
pastbeshadowed

Origin of beshadow

From Middle English bischadewen, bischadwen (also beschaden, bescheaden), from Old English besċeaduwian, besċeadan (“to overshadow”), equivalent to be- + shadow. Cognate with Dutch beschaduwen (“to shade, adumbrate, shadow”), German beschatten (“to shade, shadow, overshadow”).

Questions about beshadow

What does beshadow mean?
Beshadow means to cast a shadow around, about, or over; overshadow.
What part of speech is beshadow?
Beshadow is a verb.
What is the past tense of beshadow?
The past tense of beshadow is beshadowed.

Words near beshadow in the dictionary

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

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