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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

beslaver en · VERB

Etymology

From be- + slaver. Compare beslabber.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To cover with slaver, or anything suggesting slaver.
    • Thereupon the fiend spat upon the clay body and beslavered it so foully, that when God came back he despaired of ever cleaning up the mess and saw himself reduced to the painful necessity of turning the body outside in. That is why a man's inside is now so dirty. 1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 22:
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To cover with fulsome flattery.

Forms

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beslavered Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
beslavered Tense=Past lexicographic
beslavers Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
beslavering Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic