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besmall en · VERB

Etymology

From be- + small.

Meanings

1. (nonstandard, rare, transitive) To make small; (figurative) to make as though small.
   • And loneliness balked my pride, my innate pride, my integral native being, besmalling me all the more, until I couldn't remember myself the way I did last year and the years before. 1974, Pacific islands monthly:
   • "Weariness too faltered my conscience . . . besmalling me." 1984, Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, Bikmaus:
   • The besmalled position shocks Tusker to fell sick for a long time and finally die when he is asked to vacate the Lodge. 2000, Ed. Manmohan K. Bhatnagar, Twentieth Century Literature in English:

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Deriveds

besmalled