Begold vs Betold - What's the difference?
begold | betold |
To cover with or as with gold.
*1953 , Edward Morgan Forster, The Hill of Devi :
To make like gold; golden.
*1907 , John Bonner, George William Curtis, Henry Mills Alden, Harper's weekly :
(betell)
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.
As verbs the difference between begold and betold
is that begold is to cover with or as with gold while betold is past tense of betell.begold
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Verb
(en verb)- 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; [...]
- [...] 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, gildbetold
English
Verb
(head)betell
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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, [...]