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beteaching

beteaching is the present participle and gerund of beteach.

Meaning of beteach

Verb

beteach (third-person singular simple present beteaches, present participle beteaching, simple past and past participle betaught)

  1. (archaic, obsolete, transitive) To show; point out.
  2. (archaic, obsolete, transitive) To give; hand over; deliver up; yield.
  3. (archaic, obsolete, transitive) To hand over as a trust; entrust; commend, commit (someone), usually as a wish expressed on departing; recommend to the care of; give charge to.
    • So he toke his horse and betaughte hem all to God [...].1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VI
  4. (archaic, obsolete, transitive) To commit or commend (one), by the expression of a wish, to (God, the devil, etc.).
    • to beteach one good day
  5. (archaic, obsolete, transitive) To allot; assign.
  6. (archaic, obsolete, transitive) To teach; instruct.

Questions about beteaching

What is beteaching the present participle and gerund of?
Beteaching is the present participle and gerund of beteach.

Words near beteaching in the dictionary

  1. bete
  2. Bete Bolong
  3. Bete Bolong North
  4. beteach
  5. beteaches
  6. beteaching
  7. betear
  8. beteela
  9. beteelas
  10. beteem
  11. beteemed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: beteaching (page history and authors); beteach (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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