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bespread

bespread verb: to spread over; to cover with.

Verb

bespread (third-person singular simple present bespreads, present participle bespreading, simple past and past participle bespread)

  1. (transitive) To spread over; to cover with.
    • Hither, hither, sweet — / ’Tis a cowslip bed — / Hither, hither, sweet! / 'Tis with dew bespread!c. 1817, John Keats, Hither, Hither, Love
    Synonyms:
    overspread

bespread meaning in Tamil

bespread in Tamil

இறை

Synonyms of bespread

Forms of bespread

third-person singular presentbespreads
present participlebespreading
past participlebespread
pastbespread

Origin of bespread

From Middle English bispreden, equivalent to be- + spread. Cognate with Dutch bespreiden, Middle Low German bespreden, bespreiden, German bespreiten.

Questions about bespread

What does bespread mean?
Bespread means to spread over; to cover with.
What is bespread in Tamil?
Bespread in Tamil is இறை. See Bespread meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bespread?
Bespread is a verb.
What is the past tense of bespread?
The past tense of bespread is bespread.

Words near bespread in the dictionary

  1. bespouts
  2. bespray
  3. besprayed
  4. bespraying
  5. besprays
  6. bespread
  7. bespreading
  8. bespreads
  9. bespredel
  10. besprenge
  11. besprenges

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bespread (page history and authors); bespread (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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