Meanings
verbbescrawl (third-person singular simple present bescrawls, present participle bescrawling, simple past and past participle bescrawled)
present singular third person bescrawls · participle present bescrawling · participle past bescrawled · past bescrawled
- archaictransitiveTo cover (something) with scrawls; to scribble over.
So far is it from the kenne of theſe wretched projectors of ours that beſcraull their Pamflets every day with new formes of government for our Church.
1642 (indicated as 1641), John Milton, “That Church-governement is Prescrib’d in the Gospell, and that to Say Otherwise is Unsound”, in The Reason of Church-governement Urg’d against Prelaty […], London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 4
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Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with bescrawl
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APA
bescrawl. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bescrawl
MLA
“bescrawl.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bescrawl. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bescrawl,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bescrawl.
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