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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(transitive, rare, nonstandard) To make small; (figurative) to make as though small..
And loneliness balked my pride, my innate pride, my integral native being, besmalling me all the more, until I couldn't remember myself the way I did last year and the years before.
"Weariness too faltered my conscience . . . besmalling me."
The besmalled position shocks Tusker to fell sick for a long time and finally die when he is asked to vacate the Lodge.
Use besmall when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Besmall means (transitive, rare, nonstandard) To make small; (figurative) to make as though small..
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And loneliness balked my pride, my innate pride, my integral native being, besmalling me all the more, until I couldn't remember myself the way I did last year and the years before.
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