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bestolen

bestolen is the past participle of besteal.

Meaning of besteal

Verb

besteal (third-person singular simple present besteals, present participle bestealing, simple past bestole, past participle bestolen)

  1. (archaic, intransitive, obsolete, rare) To steal, move stealthily.
    • Come, come, truly see what mortal man behold, the mother of beauty to them all bestole. Truly matchless thou art, my beloved. I love you more than all!2018, Edgar Beaumont, Teleportkinesis
    Synonyms:
    steal away

Questions about bestolen

What is bestolen the past participle of?
Bestolen is the past participle of besteal.

Words near bestolen in the dictionary

  1. bestloved
  2. bestness
  3. bestock
  4. bestockinged
  5. bestole
  6. bestolen
  7. bestood
  8. bestorm
  9. bestormed
  10. bestorms
  11. bestow

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bestolen (page history and authors); besteal (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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