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bewander en · VERB

Etymology

From be- (“around, about”) + wander. Compare Saterland Frisian bewonderje, Middle Dutch bewanderen, German bewandern.

Meanings

1. (intransitive) To wander around or about; roam.
   • The spring and the winter came unsought into every man's life, not as they come to-day, wayfarers bewandered among the house-tops, feebly whispering of unknown things in far salubrious lands, […] 1907, Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman, The Heart of the empire:
   • […] and anon the case became grievous to her and she set out to bewander the regions saying, "Haply shall Allah reunite me with my children and my husband!" 1996, Richard F. Burton (Translator), The Arabian Nights:
   • Or 'twas wont to be so, / Just a few years ago, / At the time when Jack used to bewander to know, / That a Corporal's Guard Left the Old Barrack […] 1839, The New Sporting Magazine:

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