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Webster 1913 Edition


Bewash

Be-wash′

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Verb.
T.
To drench or souse with water.
“Let the maids bewash the men.”
Herrick.

Definition 2024


bewash

bewash

English

Verb

bewash (third-person singular simple present bewashes, present participle bewashing, simple past and past participle bewashed)

  1. (transitive, rare) To wash all over; drench with water.
    • 1901, Three northern love stories and other tales:
      "[...] And me no more shall any Gold glittering of the maidens Henceforth, in all my life-days, In ashen bath bewash me."
    Let the maids bewash the men. ― Herrick.