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beal

Pronunciation: /biːl/

The English word “beal” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A small inflammatory tumor; pustule.

verb

  1. To gather matter; swell; come to a head, as a pimple; fester; suppurate.
  2. To bellow, roar, or shout.

Etymology

From Middle English beel, bele, from Old English bȳle (“boil, carbuncle, bile”), from Proto-West Germanic *būlijā, from Proto-Germanic *būlijǭ (“swelling”), from *būlǭ (“swelling, bump, boil”). More at boil.

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