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bewhoring

bewhoring is the present participle and gerund of bewhore.

Meaning of bewhore

Verb

bewhore (third-person singular simple present bewhores, present participle bewhoring, simple past and past participle bewhored)

  1. (transitive) To make a whore of; prostitute; treat as a whore.
    • We move to higher social realms in the next chapter, in which Harrison refuses to bewhore his conscience to a peer by supporting Colonel Trompington for parliament, this being the price for favor towards Booth.1975, Eric Rothstein, Systems of order and inquiry in later eighteenth-century fiction
  2. (archaic, transitive) To call or pronounce a whore.

Questions about bewhoring

What is bewhoring the present participle and gerund of?
Bewhoring is the present participle and gerund of bewhore.

Words near bewhoring in the dictionary

  1. bewhitening
  2. bewhitens
  3. bewhore
  4. bewhored
  5. bewhores
  6. bewhoring
  7. Bewick
  8. Bewick's swan
  9. Bewick's swans
  10. Bewick's wren
  11. Bewicks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bewhoring (page history and authors); bewhore (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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