beghast

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verb

To fill with shock, awe, wonder, or amazement; inspire; enthuse.

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Meanings

verbbeghast (third-person singular simple present beghasts, present participle beghasting, simple past and past participle beghasted)

present singular third person beghasts · participle present beghasting · participle past beghasted · past beghasted · alternative begast

  1. transitiveTo fill with shock, awe, wonder, or amazement; inspire; enthuse.

    "Oh, but Fräulein! You beghast me! Such an honor!"

    1942, Phil Stong, The iron mountain
    2 more examples

    [...] And all, but my own heart-wound I Beside me, (as I sat alone, Beghasted with wild dreams), [...]

    1844, Thomas Hood, Hood's magazine and comic miscellany: Volume 1

    […] the beast of the earth after his kind, every thing that creepeth after his kind, and, as it were, the dod-begasted lie after his kind.

    1904, Julius M. Parker, God Never Spoke

Synonyms & antonyms

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Origin

From be- + ghast. Cognate with German begeistern (“to inspire, excite, thrill”).

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APA

beghast. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beghast

MLA

“beghast.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beghast. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “beghast,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beghast.

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