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besmiling

besmiling is the present participle and gerund of besmile.

Meaning of besmile

Verb

besmile (third-person singular simple present besmiles, present participle besmiling, simple past and past participle besmiled)

  1. (transitive) To smile at; give or show a smile to.
    • "[...] Death's sting he felt, who touched our belt; O Love, didst thou besmile me?"1857, Charles Bagot Cayley, Psyche's interludes - Page 92

Questions about besmiling

What is besmiling the present participle and gerund of?
Besmiling is the present participle and gerund of besmile.

Words near besmiling in the dictionary

  1. besmears
  2. besmell
  3. besmile
  4. besmiled
  5. besmiles
  6. besmiling
  7. besmirch
  8. besmirched
  9. besmircher
  10. besmirchers
  11. besmirches

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Adapted from Wiktionary: besmiling (page history and authors); besmile (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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