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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beshrew.

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Examples

  • If by any chance the divulgence leaks out -- how the girl beshrews the mischance!

    Hints for Lovers 1899

  • Its parodies of Tudor speech lapse sometimes into a callow satisfaction in that idiom -- Mark hugely enjoys his nathlesses and beshrews and marrys. "

    1601 Mark Twain 1872

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