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beshearing

beshearing is the present participle and gerund of beshear.

Meaning of beshear

Verb

beshear (third-person singular simple present beshears, present participle beshearing, simple past beshore or besheared, past participle beshorn or besheared)

  1. (transitive) To shear or shave off; shear or shave all over.
    • Eld trees arise: grim druids of the wood, Long since beshorn of their prime loveliness, Solemn they frown upon the solitude; […]1871, Hector A. Stuart, Ben Nebo: A Pilgrimage in the South Seas in Three Cantos, page 30

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Questions about beshearing

What is beshearing the present participle and gerund of?
Beshearing is the present participle and gerund of beshear.

Words near beshearing in the dictionary

  1. beshares
  2. besharp
  3. beshawled
  4. beshbarmak
  5. beshear
  6. beshearing
  7. beshears
  8. beshert
  9. besherts
  10. beshield
  11. beshielded

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