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besnowed

besnowed adjective: covered or laden with snow. Also the simple past and past participle of besnow.

Adjective

besnowed (comparative more besnowed, superlative most besnowed)

  1. Covered or laden with snow.
    • Now, if in a stage coach in the depth of winter, when three passengers are warm and snug, a fourth, all besnowed and frozen, descends from the outside and takes place amongst them, straightway all the three passengers shift their places, uneasily pull up their cloak collars, re-arrange their...1848 April – 1849 October, E[dward] Bulwer-Lytton, chapter I, in The Caxtons: A Family Picture, volume II, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1849, →OCLC, part IX, page 88

Also used as

besnowed is also the simple past and past participle of besnow.

Forms of besnowed

comparativemore besnowed
superlativemost besnowed

Origin of besnowed

From Middle English besnewed, bisnewed, from Old English besnīwod (“covered with snow”), equivalent to be- + snow + -ed. The form changed from -snew- to -snow- in conformity to snow.

Questions about besnowed

What does besnowed mean?
Besnowed means covered or laden with snow.
What part of speech is besnowed?
Besnowed is an adjective.

Words near besnowed in the dictionary

  1. Besnier
  2. Besnier-Boeck disease
  3. Besnier-Boeck-Schaumann disease
  4. besnoitiosis
  5. besnow
  6. besnowed
  7. besnowing
  8. besnows
  9. besnuff
  10. beso negro
  11. besocked

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