Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to besully
Participle: besullied
Gerund: besullying
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | besully |
| you | besully |
| he;she;it | besullies |
| we | besully |
| you | besully |
| they | besully |
Perfect
| I | have besullied |
| you | have besullied |
| he;she;it | has besullied |
| we | have besullied |
| you | have besullied |
| they | have besullied |
Past
| I | besullied |
| you | besullied |
| he;she;it | besullied |
| we | besullied |
| you | besullied |
| they | besullied |
Pluperfect
| I | had besullied |
| you | had besullied |
| he;she;it | had besullied |
| we | had besullied |
| you | had besullied |
| they | had besullied |
Future
| I | will besully |
| you | will besully |
| he;she;it | will besully |
| we | will besully |
| you | will besully |
| they | will besully |
Future Perfect
| I | will have besullied |
| you | will have besullied |
| he;she;it | will have besullied |
| we | will have besullied |
| you | will have besullied |
| they | will have besullied |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | besully |
| you | besully |
| he;she;it | besully |
| we | besully |
| you | besully |
| they | besully |
Perfect
| I | have besullied |
| you | have besullied |
| he;she;it | have besullied |
| we | have besullied |
| you | have besullied |
| they | have besullied |
Imperfect
| I | besullied |
| you | besullied |
| he;she;it | besullied |
| we | besullied |
| you | besullied |
| they | besullied |
Pluperfect
| I | had besullied |
| you | had besullied |
| he;she;it | had besullied |
| we | had besullied |
| you | had besullied |
| they | had besullied |
Conditional
Present
| I | would besully |
| you | would besully |
| he;she;it | would besully |
| we | would besully |
| you | would besully |
| they | would besully |
Perfect
| I | would have besullied |
| you | would have besullied |
| he;she;it | would have besullied |
| we | would have besullied |
| you | would have besullied |
| they | would have besullied |
Imperative
| you | besully |
| we | Let's besully |
| you | besully |
Verbs conjugated like 'besully'
accompany,
acetify,
acidify,
adsignify,
affy,
alacrify,
alkalify,
ally,
amnesty,
amplify,
angelify,
anglicify,
anglify,
apology,
apply,
arefy,
argufy,
astony,
atrophy,
avowtry, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'besully'
belly,
belull,
bully,
sully,
unsully,
beauty,
bebury,
bebusy,
becall,
becurl,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to make physically dirty
- assoil, beclart, bedaub, bedirty, bedizen, befile, befoul, begrime, beray, bewray, blacken, blot, blur, contaminate, darken, denigrate, dirty, drag through the mud, dull, foil, foul, gunk, gunk up, inquinate, pollute, sling mud, slotter, slur, smutch, soss, sowl, spot, stain, sullow, taint, tarnish, uggle
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English bisulien, from Old English besylian (“to soil, stain”), equivalent to be- + sully.
Sample Sentences
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Let us avoid them as we would those emissaries of Satan whose glory is to wither piety, to blot out godliness from the ... who would extinguish the “Light of the Week”—who would besully the “Pearl of Days”—[…] [1865, Robert Gillan, The Decalogue: a Series of Discourses on the Ten Commandments:]