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beshorn

beshorn is the past participle 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 beshorn

What is beshorn the past participle of?
Beshorn is the past participle of beshear.

Words near beshorn in the dictionary

  1. beshoe
  2. beshoed
  3. beshoeing
  4. beshoes
  5. beshone
  6. beshorn
  7. beshornin
  8. beshornoside
  9. beshorted
  10. beshout
  11. beshouted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: beshorn (page history and authors); beshear (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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