"becut" meaning in English

See becut in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: becuts [present, singular, third-person], becutting [participle, present], becut [participle, past], becut [past]
Etymology: From Middle English bekutten (found in compound for-bekutte (“mutilated”)), equivalent to be- + cut. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|bekutten}} Middle English bekutten, {{m|enm|forbekutte|for-bekutte|t=mutilated}} for-bekutte (“mutilated”), {{af|en|be-|cut}} be- + cut Head templates: {{en-verb|becuts|becutting|becut}} becut (third-person singular simple present becuts, present participle becutting, simple past and past participle becut)
  1. (transitive) To cut about; cut around; cut up; cut off; sever. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-becut-en-verb-Vw6eUyvy Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with be-

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for becut meaning in English (1.8kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "bekutten"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English bekutten",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "forbekutte",
        "3": "for-bekutte",
        "t": "mutilated"
      },
      "expansion": "for-bekutte (“mutilated”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "be-",
        "3": "cut"
      },
      "expansion": "be- + cut",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English bekutten (found in compound for-bekutte (“mutilated”)), equivalent to be- + cut.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "becuts",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "becutting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "becut",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "becut",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "becuts",
        "2": "becutting",
        "3": "becut"
      },
      "expansion": "becut (third-person singular simple present becuts, present participle becutting, simple past and past participle becut)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with be-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1868, John Taylor, Works of John Taylor",
          "text": "And dead and cold, me then againe they martyr-'d, Me all in pieces they becut and quartir'd, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cut about; cut around; cut up; cut off; sever."
      ],
      "id": "en-becut-en-verb-Vw6eUyvy",
      "links": [
        [
          "cut",
          "cut"
        ],
        [
          "cut up",
          "cut up"
        ],
        [
          "cut off",
          "cut off"
        ],
        [
          "sever",
          "sever"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To cut about; cut around; cut up; cut off; sever."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "becut"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "bekutten"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English bekutten",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "forbekutte",
        "3": "for-bekutte",
        "t": "mutilated"
      },
      "expansion": "for-bekutte (“mutilated”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "be-",
        "3": "cut"
      },
      "expansion": "be- + cut",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English bekutten (found in compound for-bekutte (“mutilated”)), equivalent to be- + cut.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "becuts",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "becutting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "becut",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "becut",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "becuts",
        "2": "becutting",
        "3": "becut"
      },
      "expansion": "becut (third-person singular simple present becuts, present participle becutting, simple past and past participle becut)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms derived from Middle English",
        "English terms inherited from Middle English",
        "English terms prefixed with be-",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1868, John Taylor, Works of John Taylor",
          "text": "And dead and cold, me then againe they martyr-'d, Me all in pieces they becut and quartir'd, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cut about; cut around; cut up; cut off; sever."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cut",
          "cut"
        ],
        [
          "cut up",
          "cut up"
        ],
        [
          "cut off",
          "cut off"
        ],
        [
          "sever",
          "sever"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To cut about; cut around; cut up; cut off; sever."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "becut"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.