Meanings
present singular third person bewhines · participle present bewhining · participle past bewhined · past bewhined
- transitiveTo whine about.
And Jamala is bewhining and bescreeching this event to remind all Europe and particularly Russia of this injustice.
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He bemoaned and bewhined it to all who would listen, and men began, half-jokingly, to call the scene of the tragedy Tallow Lake.
1921, Alfred Lee Donaldson, A History of the Adirondacks, volume 2, page 101He is savagely delineated by Euripides as a ruthless craven, bewhining and bewailing the loss of the woman he had driven to her grave, hurling abuse at his father for remaining alive and trying to saddle him with the moral guilt of Alkestis' death.
1937, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, volume 1, page 47
Origin
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