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beshine

beshine verb: to shine around or upon.

Verb

beshine (third-person singular simple present beshines, present participle beshining, simple past and past participle beshone)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To shine around or upon.
  2. (dialectal, transitive) To give light to.

Forms of beshine

third-person singular presentbeshines
present participlebeshining
past participlebeshone
pastbeshone

Origin of beshine

From Middle English beshinen, beschinen, from Old English besċīnan (“to shine upon, light up, illuminate”), from Proto-Germanic *biskīnaną (“to shine upon”), equivalent to be- + shine. Cognate with Dutch beschijnen (“to shine upon”), German bescheinen (“to shine upon”).

Questions about beshine

What does beshine mean?
Beshine means to shine around or upon.
What part of speech is beshine?
Beshine is a verb.
What is the past tense of beshine?
The past tense of beshine is beshone.

Words near beshine in the dictionary

  1. besherts
  2. beshield
  3. beshielded
  4. beshielding
  5. beshields
  6. beshine
  7. beshines
  8. beshining
  9. beshirted
  10. beshit
  11. beshite

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