Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to beray
Participle: berayed
Gerund: beraying
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | beray |
| you | beray |
| he;she;it | berays |
| we | beray |
| you | beray |
| they | beray |
Perfect
| I | have berayed |
| you | have berayed |
| he;she;it | has berayed |
| we | have berayed |
| you | have berayed |
| they | have berayed |
Past
| I | berayed |
| you | berayed |
| he;she;it | berayed |
| we | berayed |
| you | berayed |
| they | berayed |
Pluperfect
| I | had berayed |
| you | had berayed |
| he;she;it | had berayed |
| we | had berayed |
| you | had berayed |
| they | had berayed |
Future
| I | will beray |
| you | will beray |
| he;she;it | will beray |
| we | will beray |
| you | will beray |
| they | will beray |
Future Perfect
| I | will have berayed |
| you | will have berayed |
| he;she;it | will have berayed |
| we | will have berayed |
| you | will have berayed |
| they | will have berayed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | beray |
| you | beray |
| he;she;it | beray |
| we | beray |
| you | beray |
| they | beray |
Perfect
| I | have berayed |
| you | have berayed |
| he;she;it | have berayed |
| we | have berayed |
| you | have berayed |
| they | have berayed |
Imperfect
| I | berayed |
| you | berayed |
| he;she;it | berayed |
| we | berayed |
| you | berayed |
| they | berayed |
Pluperfect
| I | had berayed |
| you | had berayed |
| he;she;it | had berayed |
| we | had berayed |
| you | had berayed |
| they | had berayed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would beray |
| you | would beray |
| he;she;it | would beray |
| we | would beray |
| you | would beray |
| they | would beray |
Perfect
| I | would have berayed |
| you | would have berayed |
| he;she;it | would have berayed |
| we | would have berayed |
| you | would have berayed |
| they | would have berayed |
Imperative
| you | beray |
| we | Let's beray |
| you | beray |
Verbs conjugated like 'beray'
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 'beray'
bebay,
begay,
belay,
berry,
besay,
betray,
bewray,
bray,
deray,
abray,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to make physically dirty
- assoil, beclart, bedaub, bedirty, bedizen, befile, befoul, begrime, besully, 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 be- + ray (“to defile”), from Middle English rayen, an aphetic form of array.
Sample Sentences
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[U]pon a vaine and fooliſh ſuperſtition, enjoining men to begrime and beray themſelves with durt, to lie and vvallovv in the mire, to obſerve Sabbaths and ceaſe from vvorke, to lie proſtrate and groveling upon the earth with the face dovvnevvard, to ſit upon the ground in open place, and to make many ſtrange and extravagant adorations. [1603, Plutarch, “Of Superstition”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, page 261:]
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1652, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, John French (as J. F.) (translator), Three Books of Occult Philosophy,
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Also it is said, that if a woman take a needle, and beray it with dung, and then wrap it up in earth, in which the carkass [carcass] of a man was buryed [buried], and shall carry it about her in a cloth which was used at the funerall, that no man shall be able to ly [have sex] with her as long as she hath it about her.