besmall

present singular third person besmalls · participle present besmalling · participle past besmalled · past besmalled

1. nonstandardraretransitiveTo make small; (figurative) to make as though small.

   "Weariness too faltered my conscience . . . besmalling me."

   1984, Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, Bikmaus

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   And loneliness balked my pride, my innate pride, my integral native being, besmalling me all the more, until I couldn't remember myself the way I did last year and the years before.

   1974, Pacific islands monthly

   The besmalled position shocks Tusker to fell sick for a long time and finally die when he is asked to vacate the Lodge.

   2000, Ed. Manmohan K. Bhatnagar, Twentieth Century Literature in English