beshrew

Other forms of beshrew

past tense

beshrewed·

present participle

beshrewing·

third person

beshrews·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about beshrew

What does beshrew mean?

beshrew means "wish harm upon; invoke evil upon".

How many syllables are in beshrew?

beshrew has 2 syllables: be-shrew. The stress falls on "shrew".

What is another word for beshrew?

Close synonyms include curse, damn, bedamn, anathemize, anathemise. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is beshrew a common word?

beshrew is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.