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berain en · VERB

Etymology

From Middle English berainen, bireinen, equivalent to be- + rain. Cognate with Dutch beregenen (“to shower”), German beregnen (“to irrigate”).

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To rain upon; wet with rain; moisten.
    • Till at the last, recovering his voice, Supping the tears that all his breast berained, [...] 2005, Gordon Braden, Sixteenth-century poetry: an annotated anthology - Page 132:

Forms

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berains Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
berained Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
berained Tense=Past lexicographic
beraining Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic