Bedunce
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Bedunce is a verb meaning (transitive, archaic, rare) To treat as, or reduce to, a dunce; to make stupid.
Meaning
(transitive, archaic, rare) To treat as, or reduce to, a dunce; to make stupid.
Example Sentences
After he has sufficiently bedunced us through several pages, he at last has the tenderness to answer to our particular objections, and that with sufficient perplexity.
[…] reamsful of financial or statistical calculations; the figures of which, when duly emitted in the House, sufficed to bedunce the brains of five hundred wiser men; […]
Word Forms
- bedunces
- beduncing
- bedunced
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include bunce, duncify, dumben, bedumb, bedaze, bedust.
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