Bestung
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Bestung is an adjective meaning (archaic) Having been stung.
Meaning
(archaic) Having been stung.
Example Sentences
We raced madly for about half a mile, behaving in as wild a manner as the poor bestung animals.
...in homicidal feud, By slight punctilio urged, a jealous smart Against his friend be to deal a blow bestung,—
No sooner was she out of hearing, And not expos'd to take alarm, Than from my restless couch I sprung, As if by swarming wasps bestung.
From the day of his landing mosquitoes and black flies marked the Spectator for their own, and before his week at Tijuca was over he was so bestung that his best friend might have been forgiven for passing him upon the street.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include beseen, beached, inburning, bestrought, behated, starven.
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