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bewend

bewend verb: to turn; turn around.

Verb

bewend (third-person singular simple present bewends, present participle bewending, simple past and past participle bewent or bewended)

  1. (dialectal, transitive) To turn; turn around.
    • Glowing under day's warm sunning, Sparkling with thy ripples' running, Taking to thee brooks and rills, Valley-draining, dell-bewending, Water-taking, water- sending, Down to dairy farms and mills, [...]1971, William Barnes, One hundred poems - Page 62
    • In between modern technics, nearlier spoken the wale-bewended modern logistic outlaying of thinking and speaking, has already set oversetting machines in going.2001, Douglas Robinson, Who Translates?

Forms of bewend

third-person singular presentbewends
present participlebewending
past participlebewent
pastbewent
past participlebewended
pastbewended

Origin of bewend

From Middle English bewenden, biwenden, from Old English bewendan (“to turn around”), from Proto-West Germanic *biwandijan, from Proto-Germanic *biwandijaną. By surface analysis, be- + wend.

Questions about bewend

What does bewend mean?
Bewend means to turn; turn around.
What part of speech is bewend?
Bewend is a verb.
What is the past tense of bewend?
The past tense of bewend is bewent.

Words near bewend in the dictionary

  1. beweighs
  2. bewelcome
  3. bewell
  4. bewelter
  5. beweltered
  6. bewend
  7. bewending
  8. bewends
  9. bewent
  10. bewept
  11. Bewerley

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