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Behell vs Bedell - What's the difference?

behell | bedell |

As a verb behell

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

As a noun bedell is

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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!

    bedell

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)