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bewhack

bewhack verb: to whack about; whack all over.

Verb

bewhack (third-person singular simple present bewhacks, present participle bewhacking, simple past and past participle bewhacked)

  1. (rare, transitive) To whack about; whack all over
    • […] for he so bewhacked them, and be-pummelled them, notwithstanding the gloves, that, with bandaged heads and blackened eyes, […]1840, Edward Howard, Jack Ashore - Volume 2
    • Some of the songs were very justly encored, in particular, “Put 'em in the Plot” and “Lovely" with its verse on the Salvation Army, ending “and bewhack the booming drum, Lovely!”1892, The Cambridge Review, volume 14

Forms of bewhack

third-person singular presentbewhacks
present participlebewhacking
past participlebewhacked
pastbewhacked

Origin of bewhack

From be- (“on; about; all over”) + whack.

Questions about bewhack

What does bewhack mean?
Bewhack means to whack about; whack all over.
What part of speech is bewhack?
Bewhack is a verb.
What is the past tense of bewhack?
The past tense of bewhack is bewhacked.

Words near bewhack in the dictionary

  1. bewest
  2. bewet
  3. bewets
  4. bewetted
  5. bewetting
  6. bewhack
  7. bewhacked
  8. bewhape
  9. bewhine
  10. bewhined
  11. bewhines

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