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Beshrew

Definition: Beshrew

Beshrew

Verb

1. Wish harm upon; put a curse on; "The bad witch cursed the child".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Date "beshrew" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Beshrew

Synonyms: anathemize (v), bedamn (v), curse (v), damn (v), imprecate (v), maledict (v). (additional references)

Antonym: bless (v). (additional references)

Synonyms within Context: Beshrew

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Malediction	Interjection: woe to! beshrew! ruat coelum! ill betide, woe betide; confusion seize! damn! damn it! damn you! damn you to hell! go to hell! go to blazes! confound! blast! curse! devil take! hang! out with! a plague upon! out upon! aroynt! honi soit! parbleu!
	Execrate, beshrew, scold; anathematize; (censure); bold up to execration, denounce, proscribe, excommunicate, fulminate, thunder against; threaten.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Expression: Beshrew

Expression using "beshrew": beshrew me!. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: Beshrew

Language		Translations for "beshrew"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		ha (an, beshrew me if, by hook or by crook, by hook or crook, don't take it unkindly if, except, except for, gin, ha, how about you and me hitching up together?, if, I'll be blowed if, I'll be damned if, I'll be shot if, I'll eat my hat if, I'm a dutchman if, it does no good to, it is bad luck to, let me die if, low-voiced, provided that, what boots it to), az ördög vigyen el (beshrew me if, I'll be blowed if), átkozott legyen a nap! (beshrew the day!, woe worth the day!), átkozott legyek (beshrew me if). (various references)

Pig Latin		eshrewbay

Romanian		blestema (ban, blaspheme, blast, blow, curse, cuss, damn, darn, execrate, imprecate, swear). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations: Beshrew

Derivations
	Words beginning with "beshrew": beshrewed, beshrewing, beshrews. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Anagrams: Beshrew

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-e-e-h-r-s-w"
	-1 letter: hewers, shewer, webers, wheres.
	-2 letters: beers, brees, brews, ewers, hebes, herbs, heres, hewer, resew, sewer, sheer, shrew, sweer, weber, where.
	-3 letters: beer, bees, bree, brew, ewer, ewes, hebe, herb, here, hers, hews, rebs, rees, resh, seer, sere, shew, webs, weer, wees, were, whee.
	-4 letters: bee, ere, ers, ewe, her, hes, hew, reb, ree, res.
	Words containing the letters "b-e-e-h-r-s-w"
	+1 letter: beshrews.
	+2 letters: beshrewed, homebrews, shewbread.
	+3 letters: beshrewing, shewbreads.
	+4 letters: bellwethers, bewhiskered, breadthwise, whereabouts, whitebeards, workbenches.
	+5 letters: benchwarmers, bewitcheries, wheelbarrows.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern

5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography

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