Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to beknow
Participle: beknowed
Gerund: beknowing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | beknow |
| you | beknow |
| he;she;it | beknows |
| we | beknow |
| you | beknow |
| they | beknow |
Perfect
| I | have beknowed |
| you | have beknowed |
| he;she;it | has beknowed |
| we | have beknowed |
| you | have beknowed |
| they | have beknowed |
Past
| I | beknowed |
| you | beknowed |
| he;she;it | beknowed |
| we | beknowed |
| you | beknowed |
| they | beknowed |
Pluperfect
| I | had beknowed |
| you | had beknowed |
| he;she;it | had beknowed |
| we | had beknowed |
| you | had beknowed |
| they | had beknowed |
Future
| I | will beknow |
| you | will beknow |
| he;she;it | will beknow |
| we | will beknow |
| you | will beknow |
| they | will beknow |
Future Perfect
| I | will have beknowed |
| you | will have beknowed |
| he;she;it | will have beknowed |
| we | will have beknowed |
| you | will have beknowed |
| they | will have beknowed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | beknow |
| you | beknow |
| he;she;it | beknow |
| we | beknow |
| you | beknow |
| they | beknow |
Perfect
| I | have beknowed |
| you | have beknowed |
| he;she;it | have beknowed |
| we | have beknowed |
| you | have beknowed |
| they | have beknowed |
Imperfect
| I | beknowed |
| you | beknowed |
| he;she;it | beknowed |
| we | beknowed |
| you | beknowed |
| they | beknowed |
Pluperfect
| I | had beknowed |
| you | had beknowed |
| he;she;it | had beknowed |
| we | had beknowed |
| you | had beknowed |
| they | had beknowed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would beknow |
| you | would beknow |
| he;she;it | would beknow |
| we | would beknow |
| you | would beknow |
| they | would beknow |
Perfect
| I | would have beknowed |
| you | would have beknowed |
| he;she;it | would have beknowed |
| we | would have beknowed |
| you | would have beknowed |
| they | would have beknowed |
Imperative
| you | beknow |
| we | Let's beknow |
| you | beknow |
Verbs conjugated like 'beknow'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'beknow'
besnow,
acknow,
begnaw,
bellow,
bemow,
benew,
besnew,
bestow,
betow,
betrow,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to admit to the truth
- acknowledge, admit, assent, avow, come clean, concede, confess, fess, fess up, front up, make a clean breast, own, own up, shrive, sing, spill one's guts, spill the beans, step forward, talk, tell all, unbosom
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English beknowen, biknowen, from Old English becnāwan (“to know, know about”), equivalent to be- + know. Cognate with Old High German bichnāan (“to recognise, see”). See: Old High German 'bichnāan'.
Sample Sentences
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At length Alkimedon, his friend and comrade, right beknew it; [...] [1856, Homer, Francis William Newman, The Iliad of Homer:]
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Do not think my reverend father that I am beknowing to all the affairs of the savages, there is a great deal wanting: they come to us about the affairs of their conscience, but as to the rest they consult us but little. [1859, United States Congress, Congressional edition - Page 354:]
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[...] when I went bolt into his dressing-room, not beknowing he was in it — why it is not likely, sir, that he comes again. [1888, The Argosy, volume 46:]
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Know I as soon as dark's dreams begin Snared is my heart in a nightmare's gin; Never from terror I out may win; So dawn and dusk I pine, peak, thin, Scarcely beknowing t'other from which—My great grandam—She was a Witch. [1922, Walter De la Mare, Down-adown-derry: a book of fairy poems:]
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For vnto the no nombre can be layd
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for to preſcrybe remiſſions off offence
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In hertes retornd, as thow thy ſellff haſt ſayd.
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And I, beknow my Fawt my neclegence [...] [c. 1527–1542, Thomas Wyatt, “Penitential Psalms”, in Egerton MS 2711, page 93r:]