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bewhore en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /bɪˈhɔː(ɹ)/

Etymology

From be- + whore.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To make a whore of; prostitute; treat as a whore.
   • We move to higher social realms in the next chapter, in which Harrison refuses to bewhore his conscience to a peer by supporting Colonel Trompington for parliament, this being the price for favor towards Booth. 1975, Eric Rothstein, Systems of order and inquiry in later eighteenth-century fiction:
   • They've asked her the name of him that bewhored her, but she will not speak. 2004, Ellen Kushner, Thomas the Rhymer:
2. (archaic, transitive) To call or pronounce a whore.

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