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bewrite

bewrite verb: to write about; describe.

Verb

bewrite (third-person singular simple present bewrites, present participle bewriting, simple past bewrote, past participle bewritten)

  1. (transitive) To write about; describe.
    • I vow and purpose, here in the presence of " Billy Shakspeare," to bewrite this ill-starred foolscap!!1838, The Yale literary magazine, volume 3
    • I humbly beg of you, for God's sake and your own, to read what I here presume to bewrite: [...]1878, Philip Dwyer, The Diocese of Killaloe from the Reformation to the close of the Eighteenth century
  2. (transitive) To write to.
    • After I bewrote thee yesterday Mrs. Neville drove Lady Charlotte, young Bagot (Clerk) and self into Glastonbury.1905, Charles Hallam Elton Brookfield, Frances Mary Brookfield, Mrs. Brookfield and her circle: Volume 1
  3. (transitive) To write; write from; copy.
    • And it was in just one of these accessions of strength, (which after all, I count only as seductive illusions,) that I found myself with pen and paper, bewriting page after page — sketching men and scenes that I thought you would be glad to see, [...]1850, Donald Grant Mitchell, The battle summer

Forms of bewrite

third-person singular presentbewrites
present participlebewriting
pastbewrote
past participlebewritten

Origin of bewrite

From Middle English bewriten, from Old English bewrītan (“to write, record, copy”), from Proto-West Germanic *biwrītan (“to write down; write about”), equivalent to be- (“about, over”) + write. Cognate with Old Frisian biwrīta (“to write down”), Middle Low German bewriten (“to engrave; to pronounce a blessing”), German bereiẞen (“to scale something by hand, carry out manually”). Compare also Dutch beschrijven (“to describe”), German beschreiben (“to describe”), Swedish beskriva (“to describe”).

Words formed from bewrite

Words that rhyme with bewrite

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Questions about bewrite

What does bewrite mean?
Bewrite means to write about; describe.
What part of speech is bewrite?
Bewrite is a verb.
What is the past tense of bewrite?
The past tense of bewrite is bewrote.

Words near bewrite in the dictionary

  1. bewreathing
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  3. bewreck
  4. bewrinkle
  5. bewrinkled
  6. bewrite
  7. bewrites
  8. bewriting
  9. bewritten
  10. bewrote
  11. bewrought

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