besteal

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To steal, move stealthily. archaic,intransitive,obsolete,rare
    — Come, come, truly see what mortal man behold, the mother of beauty to them all bestole. Truly matchless thou art, my beloved. I love you more than all!

词形变化

besteals present,singular,third-person bestealing participle,present bestole past bestolen participle,past

词源

From Middle English bistelen, from Old English bestelan, from Proto-West Germanic *bestelan, from Proto-Germanic *bistelaną, corresponding to be- (“off, away”) + steal. Cognate with Saterland Frisian besteele, Dutch bestelen, German Low German bestehlen, Luxembourgish bestielen, German bestehlen, Swedish bestjäla (“to rob”).
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