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Meaning of becry | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1
/bɪˈkɹaɪ/

Definitions

  1. To cry about; cry over; lament; bemourn.
    transitive
  2. To accuse.
    transitive
  3. To bewitch.
    transitive

Examples

“Wisdom, becried on either hand, will steer very nicely a middle course between these extremes; allowing here, forbidding there.”
“"The Sun becried its death" — it rained during that fiesta celebrated on 4 May [...]”
“It is not in me to becry inequality in this scrying place I have often sought, yet never acknowledged If belief is futile and desire our burden, I shall find it hard to fly again.”
““I look around, an' ev'rywhere my eye falls becries ye. Ye're ev'rywhere in this place.””

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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