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Befold vs Begold - What's the difference?

befold | begold |

In transitive terms the difference between befold and begold

is that befold is to fold up; fold around; wrap up; envelop while begold is to make like gold; golden.

befold

English

Verb

  • To fold up; fold around; wrap up; envelop.
  • *1974 , Harrisene Jackson, There's nothing I own that I want :
  • And when I rant and rave and raise hell about the power structure and about slaverytood, and nigratood, and nigraism, and everything else that befolds me being a black woman every day, I still love people.
  • *2002 , Simon Monbaron, How to Develop Peace in the World :
  • So, brothers and sisters that is God's law and God's punishment that befolds a person who during their life does not acknowledge or feels the greatness of God and God's reality.
  • *2008 , George D. Shorten, The Low Bed of a Faller :
  • Abo sits befolded up Shadeside of a namma hole [...]

    begold

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cover with or as with gold.
  • *1953 , Edward Morgan Forster, The Hill of Devi :
  • I wore a long dressing gown of palish purple spattered with gold flowers and beneath it a green waistcoat, also begolded , and on my head a fantastic headdress of red and gold; also white trousers; [...]
  • To make like gold; golden.
  • *1907 , John Bonner, George William Curtis, Henry Mills Alden, Harper's weekly :
  • [...] as the mellowed north winds tone forth their vestal hymns upon rustling leaf-keys; sunsets that bepurple the azure; sunrises that begold the horizon; moonlights that besilver the river? Who would not have of these?

    Synonyms

    * (cover with gold) begild, gild