Meanings
verbbescare (third-person singular simple present bescares, present participle bescaring, simple past and past participle bescared)
present singular third person bescares · participle present bescaring · participle past bescared · past bescared
- transitiveTo fill with fright; scare all over; scare completely; terrify.
Perchance our lives, should men bescare / To fight his cause for pay.
1901, Pratt Institute Monthly, volume 9, page ii1 more example
Just so these loons at ev'ry sound Would whip their eyes and ears around: Tho' the least noise did so bescare 'em, […]
1889, Thomas Bridges, Francis Grose, George A. Smith (B.A.), Homer's Iliad
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