bewash
bewash verb: to drench (someone or something) with water; to wash (someone or something) all over.
Verb
bewash (third-person singular simple present bewashes, present participle bewashing, simple past and past participle bewashed)
- To drench (someone or something) with water; to wash (someone or something) all over.
- Bring in pailes of vvater then, / Let the Maides bevvaſh the men.1648, Robert Herrick, “Saint Distaffs Day, or the Morrow after Twelth Day”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be...
- And me no more shall any Gold glittering of the maidens / Henceforth, in all my life-days, / In ashen bath bewash me.1901, Three Northern Love Stories and Other Tales
Forms of bewash
| third-person singular present | bewashes |
|---|---|
| present participle | bewashing |
| past participle | bewashed |
| past | bewashed |
Origin of bewash
From be- + wash.
Questions about bewash
- What does bewash mean?
- Bewash means to drench (someone or something) with water; to wash (someone or something) all over.
- What part of speech is bewash?
- Bewash is a verb.
- What is the past tense of bewash?
- The past tense of bewash is bewashed.
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