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beslaver

beslaver verb: to cover with slaver, or anything suggesting slaver.

Verb

beslaver (third-person singular simple present beslavers, present participle beslavering, simple past and past participle beslavered)

  1. (transitive) To cover with slaver, or anything suggesting slaver.
    • Thereupon the fiend spat upon the clay body and beslavered it so foully, that when God came back he despaired of ever cleaning up the mess and saw himself reduced to the painful necessity of turning the body outside in. That is why a man's inside is now so dirty.1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 22
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To cover with fulsome flattery.

Forms of beslaver

third-person singular presentbeslavers
present participlebeslavering
past participlebeslavered
pastbeslavered

Origin of beslaver

From be- + slaver. Compare beslabber.

Questions about beslaver

What does beslaver mean?
Beslaver means to cover with slaver, or anything suggesting slaver.
What part of speech is beslaver?
Beslaver is a verb.
What is the past tense of beslaver?
The past tense of beslaver is beslavered.

Words near beslaver in the dictionary

  1. beslap
  2. beslaps
  3. beslather
  4. beslave
  5. beslaved
  6. beslaver
  7. beslavered
  8. beslavering
  9. beslavers
  10. beslaves
  11. beslaving

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