bepraise

  • 31be- — a prefix of western Germanic origin, meaning about , around , all over , and hence having an intensive and often disparaging force, much used as an English formative of verbs (and their derivatives), as in besiege, becloud, bedaub, beplaster,… …

  • 32be|laud — «bih LD», transitive verb. to laud highly; bepraise: »[He] was belauded by the universal American press (Edgar Allan Poe) …

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