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beshitting

beshitting is the present participle and gerund of beshit.

Meaning of beshit

Verb

beshit (third-person singular simple present beshits, present participle beshitting, simple past and past participle beshit or beshat)

  1. (literally, transitive, vulgar) To soil with excrement; to defecate on (something).
    • He looked like one that had beshit the roast.1562, John Heywood, The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood, page 89
    Synonyms:
    befoul, shit on
  2. (figuratively, transitive, vulgar) To soil; to spoil; to defile; to befoul.
    • Man has an inexhaustible ability to beshit his environment, with politicians well in the lead.2003, Jim Harrison, Off to the Side
    Synonyms:
    bedirty, foul, gunk, assoil, beclart, bedaub, imbrue (especially with blood), bedizen, befile, befilth

Questions about beshitting

What is beshitting the present participle and gerund of?
Beshitting is the present participle and gerund of beshit.

Words near beshitting in the dictionary

  1. beshit
  2. beshite
  3. beshiting
  4. beshits
  5. beshitten
  6. beshitting
  7. beshiver
  8. beshivered
  9. beshivering
  10. beshivers
  11. beshlik

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