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beslavering

beslavering is the present participle and gerund of beslaver.

Meaning of beslaver

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.

Questions about beslavering

What is beslavering the present participle and gerund of?
Beslavering is the present participle and gerund of beslaver.

Words near beslavering in the dictionary

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

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