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beturn

beturn verb: to turn round or about.

Verb

beturn (third-person singular simple present beturns, present participle beturning, simple past and past participle beturned)

  1. (ambitransitive, archaic) To turn round or about.
  2. (ambitransitive, archaic, reflexive) To turn around; turn back; return.
    • To their advises the disdaineful hart / Of this audacious youth beturning plies, […]1821, The Retrospective review, and historical and antiquarian magazine

Forms of beturn

third-person singular presentbeturns
present participlebeturning
past participlebeturned
pastbeturned

Origin of beturn

From Middle English biturnen, from Old English *beturnian, betyrnan (“to turn around; bend the knee, prostrate oneself”), equivalent to be- + turn.

Questions about beturn

What does beturn mean?
Beturn means to turn round or about.
What part of speech is beturn?
Beturn is a verb.
What is the past tense of beturn?
The past tense of beturn is beturned.

Words near beturn in the dictionary

  1. betumbled
  2. betune
  3. beturbaned
  4. beturbanned
  5. Beturia
  6. beturn
  7. beturtlenecked
  8. betusked
  9. betuxed
  10. betuxedoed
  11. betw.

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