Benothing

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To reduce to nothing; annihilate. obsolete, rare, transitive

    "Now leave we Ywain to his fighting and turn we to the lady, that was there heavily cast down to be so left and benothinged."

Synonyms

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annihilateannihilatecrippledamagedashdesolate

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"Now leave we Ywain to his fighting and turn we to the lady, that was there heavily cast down to be so left and benothinged."

Etymology

From be- + nothing.

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