bewent

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

Verb (1)

bego (third-person singular simple present begoes, present participle begoing, simple past bewent, past participle begone)

1. (archaic) To go about; encompass; surround; beset, surround with hostile intent; to overrun.
   • Thy prysemen ar sore begone and put undir, for they ar oversette with Sarazens mo than fyve hondred.1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book V
2. (obsolete) To clothe, dress.
3. (obsolete except in set phrases) To affect, usually as a good or bad influence, or as a circumstance.
   • He was woe begone.

Verb (2)

bego (third-person singular simple present begoes, present participle begoing, simple past bewent, past participle begone)

1. (rare) To go away, to disappear.
   • He bewent speedily, and as he vanished I heard him again calling, " Not she, not she ! Ha, ha ! "1902, Carolyn Wells, Abeniki Caldwell, page 178

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