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beshrew

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Verb (transitive)

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be=shrew

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb beshrew has 1 sense

beshrew(v = verb.communication) anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, curse, damn, imprecate, maledict - wish harm upon; invoke evil upon; "The bad witch cursed the child"

is one way to arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, evoke, invoke, put forward, raise, stir

Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

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CIDE DICTIONARY

beshrew, v. t.

To curse; to execrate. [1913 Webster]

" Often a very mild form of imprecation; sometimes so far from implying a curse, as to be uttered coaxingly, nay even with some tenderness. Schmidt. " Schmidt. [1913 Webster]

"Beshrew me, but I love her heartily." [1913 Webster]

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ROGET THESAURUS

beshrew

Malediction

VB curse, accurse, imprecate, damn, swear at, curse with bell book and candle, invoke curses on the head of, call down curses on the head of, devote to destruction, execrate, beshrew, scold, anathematize, bold up to execration, denounce, proscribe, excommunicate, fulminate, thunder against, threaten, curse and swear, swear, swear like a trooper, fall a cursing, rap out an oath, damn.

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