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bemerd en · VERB

Etymology

From be- + merd.

Meanings

1. (rare, transitive) To befoul with excrement.
   • And he and his, standing close beneath the wall, and little expecting so sudden and ill an answer, fared shamefully, being all well soused and bemerded with filth and lye. Therewith went up great shouts of laughter from the walls. 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, chapter 152, in The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC:
   • […] he felt, having soundly and legitimately bemerded that face in imagination […] 1968, Anthony Burgess, Enderby Outside:
2. (figuratively, rare, transitive) To tarnish or slander.
   • The State gets irritated by such childish people, hunts them down and robs them of love, bemerds their dignity and honor, and puts signs on them […] 1977, The Landsmen:
   • ...namely, that it's irrational, random, and befouled and bemerded with the residues of ancient cruelty and superstition. 2004, Christopher Hitchens, Love, poverty, and war: journeys and essays:
   • […] they are produced in great abundance, with the twin objects of inducing electors to abstain, and of bemerding candidates of all parties. 1897, The New Review:
   • […] so now the colossal fabric of Scientific Utilitarianism, offspring of a distorted and epileptic steam-mania, has bemerded us with its panting slime […] 2004, Peter Wollen, Paris/Manhattan: writings on art:

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