Behell

Quick meaning: Behell is a verb meaning (ambitransitive) To torture as with pains of hell; give hell (to).

Meaning

(ambitransitive) To torture as with pains of hell; give hell (to).

Example Sentences

Did behell and rack him ― Hewyt.

I have seen them behell a saint for ignorantly drinking an alcoholic drink. Beshrew the sanctimonious riffraff!

Thus a mechanic who feels himself electrically influenced speaks of "brain-kilowatt-hours", or a resistive patient talks of "behelling" injections.

Word Forms

• behells
• behelling
• behelled

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include go to hell, begall, belash, bedevil, betravail, bebother.

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