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Bɪ Prefix Bre Belittle Achievements Important Older Girl
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BrE / bɪ / NAmE / bɪ / |
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- 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 / - to make or treat somebody/something as
- Don't belittle his achievements (= say they are not important).
- An older girl befriended me.
- wearing or covered with
- heavily bejewelled fingers
- bespattered with mud
- to cause something to be
- The ship was becalmed (= there was no wind so it could not move).
- The rebels besieged the fort.
- 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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