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Beghast vs Beghost - What's the difference?

beghast | beghost |

In lang=en terms the difference between beghast and beghost

is that beghast is to fill with shock, awe, wonder, or amazement; inspire; enthuse while beghost is to make a ghost of; teach (one) how to play a ghost.

As verbs the difference between beghast and beghost

is that beghast is to fill with shock, awe, wonder, or amazement; inspire; enthuse while beghost is to endow with a spirit or soul; fill with or affect by a spirit or ghost; inspire; haunt.

beghast

English

Alternative forms

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Verb

(en verb)
  • To fill with shock, awe, wonder, or amazement; inspire; enthuse.
  • *1844 , Thomas Hood, Hood's magazine and comic miscellany: Volume 1 :
  • [...] And all, but my own heart-wound I Beside me, (as I sat alone, Beghasted with wild dreams), [...]
  • *1904 , Julius M. Parker, God Never Spoke :
  • […] the beast of the earth after his kind, every thing that creepeth after his kind, and, as it were, the dod-begasted lie after his kind.
  • *1942 , Phil Stong, The iron mountain :
  • "Oh, but Fräulein! You beghast me! Such an honor!"

    beghost

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To endow with a spirit or soul; fill with or affect by a spirit or ghost; inspire; haunt.
  • *1910 , Charles Francis Keary, The pursuit of reason :
  • Was Hamlet's armour beghosted too?
  • *1988 , John Canning, 50 Great Ghost Stories :
  • For two centuries or more Littlecote, which is near Hungerford, was owned by the Darrell family, and it was they who finally beghosted not only the house but also the neighbourhood — even as far as the Hungerford to Salisbury road.
  • *1989 , Ronald Frame, Penelope's hat :
  • Later she remembered them as ensorcelled houses; beghosted by their occupants' fears of disappointment, by the memories of their lives and other lives they might have had.
  • *2005 , Charles Lloyd, Philip Cox, Anti-Jacobin novels: Edmund Oliver (1798) :
  • [...] and the publication of the very interesting tale from which it is taken, we have been so beghosted both in prose and verse, [...]
  • To make a ghost of; teach (one) how to play a ghost.
  • Derived terms

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