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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.
