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be-
pref.
1. Completely; thoroughly; excessively. Used as an intensive: bemuse.
2. On; around; over: besmear.
3. About; to: bespeak.
4. Used to form transitive verbs from nouns, adjectives, and intransitive verbs, as:
a. To make; cause to become: bedim.
b. To affect, cover, or provide: bespectacled.

[Middle English bi-, be-, from Old English be-, bi-; see ambhi in Indo-European roots.]

be-
prefix forming transitive verbs
1. (from nouns) to surround completely; cover on all sides befog
2. (from nouns) to affect completely or excessively bedazzle
3. (from nouns) to consider as or cause to be befool befriend
4. (from nouns) to provide or cover with bejewel
5. (from verbs) at, for, against, on, or over bewail berate
[Old English be-, bi-, unstressed variant of by]
Translations
be- prefix
bespectacled → à lunettes
bejewelled → paré(e) de bijoux


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He could conceive of men going very insignificantly about the world bearing a load of courage unseen, and although he had known many of his comrades through boyhood, he be- gan to fear that his judgment of them had been blind.
Not a whisper, not a splash, not a stir of the shingle, not a footstep, not a sigh came up from the earth be- low--never a sign of life but the scent of climbing jasmine; and Kennedy's voice, speaking behind me, passed through the wide casement, to vanish out- side in a chill and sumptuous stillness.
Miss Watson would say, "Don't put your feet up there, Huckleberry;" and "Don't scrunch up like that, Huckleberry -- set up straight;" and pretty soon she would say, "Don't gap and stretch like that, Huckleberry -- why don't you try to be- have?
 
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