besmall

Verb

besmall (third-person singular simple present besmalls, present participle besmalling, simple past and past participle besmalled)

1. (nonstandard, rare, transitive) To make small; (figurative) to make as though small.
   • And loneliness balked my pride, my innate pride, my integral native being, besmalling me all the more, until I couldn't remember myself the way I did last year and the years before.1974, Pacific islands monthly
   • "Weariness too faltered my conscience . . . besmalling me."1984, Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, Bikmaus