Betell vs Behell - What's the difference?
betell | behell |
To speak or tell about; declare; narrate; describe.
*1938 , Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (U.S.), Locomotive engineers journal :
*2001 , Donna Morrissey, Kit's Law: A Novel :
*2009 , Dean R. Koontz, Odd Hours :
To speak for; answer for; justify.
To lay claim to; win; rescue.
(rare) To talk about negatively; slander; calumniate; deride; deceive.
(ambitransitive) To torture as with pains of hell; give hell (to).
*1936 , Frederick Walker Mott, Archives of neurology and psychiatry :
*2006 , Philangi Dasa, Swedenborg the Buddhist :
As verbs the difference between betell and behell
is that betell is to speak or tell about; declare; narrate; describe while behell is to torture as with pains of hell; give hell (to).betell
English
Verb
- Occasionally we do see some short-line road whose track and equipment are kept in such good repair as to betell of exceptional prosperity; [...]
- Sid's face disappeared and one of his cursed Gods was glaring instead, through gouged-out sockets that betold of his having loved that which was denied him, a law that not even legends could do away with.
- The air pooled in stillness because the winds had died and would never breathe again, and the silence betold a world of solid stone, where the planetary core had gone cold, where no rivers ran and seas no longer stirred with tides, [...]
behell
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Verb
(en verb)- Did behell and rack him ? Hewyt.
- Thus a mechanic who feels himself electrically influenced speaks of "brain-kilowatt-hours", or a resistive patient talks of "behelling " injections.
- I have seen them behell a saint for ignorantly drinking an alcoholic drink. Beshrew the sanctimonious riffraff!