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Meaning of behell | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1

Definitions

To torture as with pains of hell; give hell (to).

ambitransitive

Examples

“Did behell and rack him ― Hewyt.”
“Thus a mechanic who feels himself electrically influenced speaks of "brain-kilowatt-hours", or a resistive patient talks of "behelling" injections.”
“I have seen them behell a saint for ignorantly drinking an alcoholic drink. Beshrew the sanctimonious riffraff!”

CEFR level

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

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