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Behold vs Begold - What's the difference?

behold | begold |

In transitive terms the difference between behold and begold

is that behold is to see, or to look at while begold is to make like gold; golden.

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 ----

    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