"bewrite" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: bewrites [present, singular, third-person], bewriting [participle, present], bewrote [past], bewritten [participle, past]
Rhymes: -aɪt Etymology: From Middle English bewriten, from Old English bewrītan (“to write, record, copy”); equivalent to be- (“about, over”) + write. Compare Dutch beschrijven (“to describe”), German beschreiben (“to describe”), Swedish beskriva (“to describe”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|bewriten}} Middle English bewriten, {{inh|en|ang|bewrītan|t=to write, record, copy}} Old English bewrītan (“to write, record, copy”), {{pre|en|be|write|t1=about, over}} be- (“about, over”) + write, {{noncog|nl|beschrijven|t=to describe}} Dutch beschrijven (“to describe”), {{noncog|de|beschreiben|t=to describe}} German beschreiben (“to describe”), {{noncog|sv|beskriva|t=to describe}} Swedish beskriva (“to describe”) Head templates: {{en-verb|bewrites|bewriting|bewrote|bewritten}} bewrite (third-person singular simple present bewrites, present participle bewriting, simple past bewrote, past participle bewritten)
  1. (transitive) To write about; describe. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-bewrite-en-verb-JBkULqoQ
  2. (transitive) To write to. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-bewrite-en-verb-0aY4upeN
  3. (transitive) To write; write from; copy. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-bewrite-en-verb-vZ1wSPTs Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with be- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 15 7 77 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with be-: 28 28 45
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: bewriting, bewritten

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1878, Philip Dwyer, The Diocese of Killaloe from the Reformation to the close of the Eighteenth century",
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          "text": "I said it was a pleasureful thing to be thus bewritten upward. [...]",
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          "ref": "2011, The history of the Chronoswiss brand can only reach",
          "text": "This harvesting bewrites the unhealable Monogrammed Beach Towels of affair and assenting a brew-house."
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