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Beheld vs Behell - What's the difference?

beheld | behell |

As verbs the difference between beheld and behell

is that beheld is (behold) while behell is (ambitransitive) to torture as with pains of hell; give hell (to).

beheld

English

Verb

(head)
  • (behold)
    • ----

    behold

    English

    Verb

  • To see, or to look at.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;

    Usage notes

    Rarely used in informal speech. The past participle beholden now has a meaning detached from the other forms of the word.

    Synonyms

    * get a load of

    Derived terms

    * beholder ** eye of the beholder

    References

    * * English irregular verbs ----

    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!