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Definitions

Adjective

1. 1
   Showing the effects of much weeping; marred or swollen in the face through continued weeping. Scotland, dialectal

Etymology

From Scots begrutten, past participle of begrete (“to beweep”), equivalent be- + greet (“to weep”).

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