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bewrite

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

verb

  1. To write about; describe.
  2. To write to.
  3. To write; write from; copy.

Etymology

From Middle English bewriten, from Old English bewrītan (“to write, record, copy”), from Proto-West Germanic *biwrītan (“to write down; write about”), equivalent to be- (“about, over”) + write. Cognate with Old Frisian biwrīta (“to write down”), Middle Low German bewriten (“to engrave; to pronounce a blessing”), German bereiẞen (“to scale something by hand, carry out manually”). Compare also…

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