bewash en · VERB
Etymology
From be- + wash.
Meanings
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(rare, transitive) To drench (someone or something) with water; to wash (someone or something) all over.
Bring in pailes of vvater then, / Let the Maides bevvaſh the men.
1648, Robert Herrick, “Saint Distaffs Day, or the Morrow after Twelth Day”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC, page 374:And me no more shall any Gold glittering of the maidens / Henceforth, in all my life-days, / In ashen bath bewash me.
1901, Three Northern Love Stories and Other Tales:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| bewashed | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| bewashed | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| bewashes | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| bewashing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |