beshear

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To shear or shave off; shear or shave all over. transitive
    — Eld trees arise: grim druids of the wood, Long since beshorn of their prime loveliness, Solemn they frown upon the solitude; […]

词形变化

beshears present,singular,third-person beshearing participle,present beshore past besheared past beshorn participle,past besheared participle,past

词源

From Middle English bischeren, from Old English besċieran, besċeran (“to shear, shave, cut hair, give the tonsure”), from Proto-West Germanic *biskeran (“to cut off”), equivalent to be- (“around, off, away”) + shear. Cognate with Saterland Frisian beskere, West Frisian beskeare, Dutch bescheren, German Low German bescheren, German bescheren.
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