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besullying

besullying is the present participle of besully.

Meaning of besully

Verb

besully (third-person singular simple present besullies, present participle besullying, simple past and past participle besullied)

  1. (transitive) To make sullied or soiled; defile.
    • Let us avoid them as we would those emissaries of Satan whose glory is to wither piety, to blot out godliness from the ... who would extinguish the “Light of the Week”—who would besully the “Pearl of Days”—[…]1865, Robert Gillan, The Decalogue: a Series of Discourses on the Ten Commandments
    Synonyms:
    bedirty, befile, blemish, sully, assoil, beclart, bedaub, imbrue (especially with blood), bedizen, befilth

Questions about besullying

What is besullying the present participle of?
Besullying is the present participle of besully.

Words near besullying in the dictionary

  1. besuiting
  2. besuits
  3. besullied
  4. besullies
  5. besully
  6. besullying
  7. besulpamide
  8. besung
  9. beswaddle
  10. beswarm
  11. beswarmed

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