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pref.
  1. Completely; thoroughly; excessively. Used as an intensive: bemuse.
  2. On; around; over: besmear.
  3. About; to: bespeak.
  4. Used to form transitive verbs from nouns, adjectives, and intransitive verbs, as:
    1. To make; cause to become: bedim.
    2. To affect, cover, or provide: bespectacled.

[Middle English bi-, be-, from Old English be-, bi-.]


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Dansk (Danish)
pref. - over det hele, be-

Français (French)
pref. - (préf) be- signifiant entourer complètement, clôturer, couvert (de tous côtés), affecter (énormément), considérer comme, munir de, couvrir de, à, pour, contre, sur, par-dessus

Deutsch (German)
pref. - Früher benutztes Präfix zur Bildung von Verben wie become, befriend etc.

Ελληνική (Greek)
pref. - περιέρχομαι

Español (Spanish)
pref. - utilizado como intensificador, sobre, alrededor, utilizado para formar verbos transitivos a partir de sustantivos, adjetivos y verbos intransitivos

Svenska (Swedish)
pref. - hel, grundlig, ordentlig

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
彻底, 极度, 以...相称, 视作, 使, 使显得

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
pref. - 徹底, 極度, 以...相稱, 視作, 使, 使顯得

한국어 (Korean)
pref. - 동사에 붙이어 널리[전혀,심하게] 뜻, 자동사에 붙이어 타동사를 만듦, 형용사, 명사에 붙이어 ~으로 만들다의 뜻인 타동사를 만듦`

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(بادئه الكلم- ه) حول كل, فوق كل‏

עברית (Hebrew)
pref. - ‮קידומת בפעלים במשמעות של כל, במידה רבה, פעולה יוצאת, השפעה או התייחסות‬


 
 

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