becry

present singular third person becries · participle present becrying · participle past becried · past becried

1. transitiveTo cry about; cry over; lament; bemourn.

   "The Sun becried its death" — it rained during that fiesta celebrated on 4 May [...]

   1985, Américo Castro, Willard F. King, Selma Margaretten, The Spaniards: An Introduction to Their History

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   Wisdom, becried on either hand, will steer very nicely a middle course between these extremes; allowing here, forbidding there.

   1909, Harrington Sainsbury, Drugs and the drug habit

   It is not in me to becry inequality in this scrying place I have often sought, yet never acknowledged If belief is futile and desire our burden, I shall find it hard to fly again.

   2003, John A. Smith, Little Fish Big Pond

   “I look around, an' ev'rywhere my eye falls becries ye. Ye're ev'rywhere in this place.”

   2010, Renee Wildes, Lycan Tides

   Synonyms: bewail, grieve, sorrow, afterthink, begrieve, bemoan, bemourn, bewail

2. transitiveTo accuse.

   Synonyms: accriminate, charge, inculpate, accriminate, accuse, appeach, arraign, tax

3. transitiveTo bewitch.

   Synonyms: bechat, bespell, ensorcell, bechat, beglammer, bespell, bewitch, conjure