bewrite

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verb

To write about; describe.

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Meanings

verbbewrite (third-person singular simple present bewrites, present participle bewriting, simple past bewrote, past participle bewritten)

present singular third person bewrites · participle present bewriting · past bewrote · participle past bewritten

  1. transitiveTo write about; describe.

    "I said it was a pleasureful thing to be thus bewritten upward. [...]"

    1926, Blanche Colton Williams, Best American stories
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    I vow and purpose, here in the presence of " Billy Shakspeare," to bewrite this ill-starred foolscap!!

    1838, The Yale literary magazine, volume 3

    I humbly beg of you, for God's sake and your own, to read what I here presume to bewrite: [...]

    1878, Philip Dwyer, The Diocese of Killaloe from the Reformation to the close of the Eighteenth century

    This harvesting bewrites the unhealable Monogrammed Beach Towels of affair and assenting a brew-house.

    2011, The history of the Chronoswiss brand can only reach
  2. transitiveTo write to.

    After I bewrote thee yesterday Mrs. Neville drove Lady Charlotte, young Bagot (Clerk) and self into Glastonbury.

    1905, Charles Hallam Elton Brookfield, Frances Mary Brookfield, Mrs. Brookfield and her circle: Volume 1
  3. transitiveTo write; write from; copy.

    And it was in just one of these accessions of strength, (which after all, I count only as seductive illusions,) that I found myself with pen and paper, bewriting page after page — sketching men and scenes that I thought you would be glad to see, [...]

    1850, Donald Grant Mitchell, The battle summer

Synonyms & antonyms

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Origin

  1. Proto-West Germanic*biwrītan“to write down; write about”
  2. Old Englishbewrītan“to write, record, copy”
  3. Middle Englishbewriten
  4. Englishbewrite

From Middle English bewriten, from Old English bewrītan (“to write, record, copy”), from Proto-West Germanic *biwrītan (“to write down; write about”), equivalent to be- (“about, over”) + write. Cognate with Old Frisian biwrīta (“to write down”), Middle Low German bewriten (“to engrave; to pronounce a blessing”), German bereiẞen (“to scale something by hand, carry out manually”). Compare also Dutch beschrijven (“to describe”), German beschreiben (“to describe”), Swedish beskriva (“to describe”).

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“bewrite.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bewrite. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bewrite,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bewrite.

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