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behell - What does it mean?

Definition of 'behell'

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • (ambitransitive) To torture as with pains of hell; give hell (to).
  • Did behell and rack him ? Hewyt.
  • *1936 , Frederick Walker Mott, Archives of neurology and psychiatry :
  • Thus a mechanic who feels himself electrically influenced speaks of "brain-kilowatt-hours", or a resistive patient talks of "behelling " injections.
  • *2006 , Philangi Dasa, Swedenborg the Buddhist :
  • I have seen them behell a saint for ignorantly drinking an alcoholic drink. Beshrew the sanctimonious riffraff!

    Similar to 'behell'

    bowel, bewail, behowl, bewill, bewell