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beshiver

beshiver verb: synonym of shiver (“break into fragments”).

Verb

beshiver (third-person singular simple present beshivers, present participle beshivering, simple past and past participle beshivered)

  1. (archaic, poetic, transitive) Synonym of shiver (“break into fragments”).
    • Tell me the people that do keep / Within the kingdoms of the deep; / Or fetch me back that cloud again, / Beshivered into seeds of rain.1674, Robert Herrick, To Find God
    Synonyms:
    shiver

Synonyms of beshiver

Forms of beshiver

third-person singular presentbeshivers
present participlebeshivering
past participlebeshivered
pastbeshivered

Origin of beshiver

From be- + shiver.

Questions about beshiver

What does beshiver mean?
Beshiver means synonym of shiver (“break into fragments”).
What part of speech is beshiver?
Beshiver is a verb.
What is the past tense of beshiver?
The past tense of beshiver is beshivered.

Words near beshiver in the dictionary

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

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