benegro

English

Etymology

From be- +‎ negro.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /bɪˈniːɡɹəʊ/

Verb

benegro (third-person singular simple present benegroes, present participle benegroing, simple past and past participle benegroed)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To render dark; blacken.
    • 1650, Jean Baptiste van Helmont, Walter Charleton, A Ternary of Paradoxes:
      when the tangible darkness that benegroed the horizon of Ægypt
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