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bewaving

bewaving is the present participle and gerund of bewave.

Meaning of bewave

Verb (1)

bewave (third-person singular simple present bewaves, present participle bewaving, simple past and past participle bewaved)

  1. (Scotland, transitive) To shield; hide.
  2. (Scotland, transitive) To lay wait for; overpower by means of some base stratagem.

Verb (2)

bewave (third-person singular simple present bewaves, present participle bewaving, simple past and past participle bewaved)

  1. (intransitive) To blow or toss about; blow, waft, or sweep away.
  2. (Scotland, intransitive) To wander or waver.

Questions about bewaving

What is bewaving the present participle and gerund of?
Bewaving is the present participle and gerund of bewave.

Words near bewaving in the dictionary

  1. bewatered
  2. bewatering
  3. bewaters
  4. bewave
  5. bewaves
  6. bewaving
  7. beway
  8. beways
  9. bewb
  10. bewbs
  11. BEWD

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bewaving (page history and authors); bewave (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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