Meaning

1 senses

  1. (Scotland, dated)To cover (something) (both literally and figuratively).

    A truth beswathed by the cover of lies.

    The night beswathed the sloomy holt with a pall of darkness.

Origin

From Middle English *beswathen (“to becover”), from Old English swaþian (“to cover”), equi

From Middle English *beswathen (“to becover”), from Old English swaþian (“to cover”), equivalent to be- + swathe (“to becover”).

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Forms

beswathes, beswathing, beswathed, beswathed
Base formbeswathe · to beswathe
3rd person singularbeswathes
Present participlebeswathing
Past simplebeswathed
Past participlebeswathed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybeswathe
he, she, itbeswathes

Past simpleLesson

all personsbeswathed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave beswathed
he, she, ithas beswathed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill beswathe

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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