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betall

betall verb: to pay; count out money.

Verb

betall (third-person singular simple present betalls, present participle betalling, simple past and past participle betalled)

  1. (ambitransitive, obsolete) To pay; count out money.
    • And you will love me, kiss me, and be my secret sweetheart. Your husband will not know. I will give you money, and your husband will not have to betall, to pay for your lodgings or your food.1980, Jill L. Levenson, A critical edition of the anonymous Elizabethan play "The Weakest goeth to the wall"

Forms of betall

third-person singular presentbetalls
present participlebetalling
past participlebetalled
pastbetalled

Origin of betall

Probably from Dutch betalen (“to pay”), equivalent to be- + tale. Compare also German bezahlen (“to pay”) and Swedish betala (“to pay”).

Questions about betall

What does betall mean?
Betall means to pay; count out money.
What part of speech is betall?
Betall is a verb.
What is the past tense of betall?
The past tense of betall is betalled.

Words near betall in the dictionary

  1. betalipoproteins
  2. betalk
  3. betalked
  4. betalking
  5. betalks
  6. betall
  7. betallow
  8. betamax
  9. Betamaxed
  10. Betamaxes
  11. Betamaxing

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