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beshake

beshake verb: to shake roughly or violently.

Verb

beshake (third-person singular simple present beshakes, present participle beshaking, simple past beshook, past participle beshaken)

  1. (transitive) To shake roughly or violently.
    • Once away, he exclaimed in a heat of self-accusation, "I could beshake me! What manner of guardiance and conduction have I offered you?"1914, Alber Hale Plumb, When mayflowers blossom: a romance of Plymouth's first years - Page 350

Forms of beshake

third-person singular presentbeshakes
present participlebeshaking
pastbeshook
past participlebeshaken

Origin of beshake

From be- + shake.

Questions about beshake

What does beshake mean?
Beshake means to shake roughly or violently.
What part of speech is beshake?
Beshake is a verb.
What is the past tense of beshake?
The past tense of beshake is beshook.

Words near beshake in the dictionary

  1. beshadow
  2. beshadowed
  3. beshadowing
  4. beshadows
  5. beshagged
  6. beshake
  7. beshakes
  8. beshame
  9. beshamed
  10. beshames
  11. beshaming

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