prefix
1 (in verbs) to make or treat sb/sth as:
Don't belittle his achievements (= say they are not important). * An older girl befriended me.
2 (in adjectives ending in -ed) wearing or covered with:
heavily bejewelled fingers * bespattered with mud
3 (in verbs and adjectives ending in -ed) to cause sth to be:
The ship was becalmed. * The rebels besieged the fort.
4 used to turn INTRANSITIVE verbs (= without an object) into TRANSITIVE verbs (= with an object):
She is always bemoaning her lot.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for be- is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does be- appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — be- appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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