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Bɪ Prefix Bre Belittle Achievements Important Older Girl

Word be
WordType (prefix)
Phonetic BrE / bɪ / NAmE / bɪ /
Example
  • don't belittle his achievements (= say they are not important).
  • an older girl befriended me.
  • heavily bejewelled fingers
  • bespattered with mud
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be

(prefix)BrE / bɪ / NAmE / bɪ /
  1. to make or treat somebody/something as
    • Don't belittle his achievements (= say they are not important).
    • An older girl befriended me.
  2. wearing or covered with
    • heavily bejewelled fingers
    • bespattered with mud
  3. to cause something to be
    • The ship was becalmed (= there was no wind so it could not move).
    • The rebels besieged the fort.
  4. used to turn intransitive verbs (= without an object) into transitive verbs (= with an object)
    • She is always bemoaning her lot.

    Word Origin

    • Old English, weak form of bī ‘by’.
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