📖 B — The English dictionary · page 21

bennet — Everyday, meaning 1: A family name; best known as the Bennet family, especially Elizabeth Bennet, in Jane Austen's novel "Pride and Prejudice".↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (rare) Herb bennet: a wild plant with yellow flowers, also called wood avens.↗ Example: Elizabeth Bennet is the heroine of "Pride and Prejudice".↗ · Mrs Bennet wants her daughters to marry.↗ · The Bennet family had five daughters.↗ · Mr Bennet loved reading in his library.↗ · Herb bennet grows in shady woods.↗ · Our class read a short version of the Bennet sisters' story.↗

bent — Everyday, meaning 1: Bent means not straight any more, curved or folded.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Bent is the past form of bend: «He bent the wire».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Bent on» means very determined to do something.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: In British slang, bent can mean dishonest.↗ Example: The nail was bent, so I couldn't use it.↗ · He bent down to tie his shoe.↗ · Land with your knees bent.↗ · The pencil in the water looks bent.↗ · The wheel got bent in the crash.↗ · She is bent on winning the race.↗ · The old man was bent over his walking stick.↗ · I bent the paper in half.↗ · She was very old and almost bent double.↗ · I am bent and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day.↗ (Writings PSA.38.7, JPS 1917)↗ · He hath bent His bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.↗ (Writings LAM.3.12, JPS 1917)↗ · If a man turn not, He will whet His sword, He hath bent His bow, and made it ready; (Writings PSA.7.13, JPS 1917)↗

benumbed — Everyday, meaning 1: Made numb, so that a person cannot feel or move properly, usually from cold.↗ Example: His fingers were benumbed with cold.↗ · He sat still, benumbed and cold, in the snow.↗ · I am benumbed and sore crushed; I groan by reason of the moaning of my heart.↗ (Writings PSA.38.9, JPS 1917)↗

bequeath — Everyday, meaning 1: (law, formal) To leave money or belongings to someone in your will, so they get them after you die.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) To pass something on to people who come later, like ideas or traditions.↗ Example: Great-grandpa bequeathed his gold watch to my dad.↗ · She bequeathed her house to the animal shelter.↗ · The ancient Greeks bequeathed us many ideas.↗ · In his will, he bequeathed his books to the library.↗ · The painting was bequeathed to the museum.↗ · What would you like to bequeath to future generations?↗ · The farm was bequeathed to the youngest son.↗ · And now, together with my parental blessing, I bequeath to you this doll.↗

berbers — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A people of North Africa, with their own old language and writing.↗ Example: As al- ready demonstrated, the lirst alphabet invented was similar to that still used by the Berbers, whence the inference, that there may have been a time when the Hebrews also used such an alphabet.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

bereave — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: To take away someone dear by death; to leave someone without a loved one.↗ Example: Without shall the sword bereave, and in the chambers terror; slaying both young man and virgin, the suckling with the man of gray hairs.↗ (Torah DEU.32.25, JPS 1917)↗ · therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations any more, saith the Lord GOD; (Prophets EZK.36.14, JPS 1917)↗ · And I fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I bereave them of children, I destroy My people, since they return not from their ways.↗ (Prophets JER.15.7, JPS 1917)↗ · If I cause evil beasts to pass through the land, and they bereave it, and it be desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the beasts; (Prophets EZK.14.15, JPS 1917)↗

bereaved — Everyday, meaning 1: Having lost a close family member or friend because they died.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun, the bereaved) People whose loved one has recently died.↗ Example: The bereaved family thanked everyone for their kind messages.↗ · Our class made cards for a bereaved classmate.↗ · The vicar comforted the bereaved at the funeral.↗ · Recently bereaved people may feel sad for a long time.↗ · The charity helps bereaved children.↗ · We should be gentle with someone who is bereaved.↗ · The bereaved mother planted a tree in her son's memory.↗ · The bereaved father and daughter were wild with grief, and they abandoned themselves to their bitter sorrow.↗ · And as for me, if I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.'↗ (Torah GEN.43.14, JPS 1917)↗ · And Jacob their father said unto them: 'Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away; upon me are all these things come.'↗ (Torah GEN.42.36, JPS 1917)↗ · until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to him; then I will send, and fetch thee from thence; why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?'↗ (Torah GEN.27.45, JPS 1917)↗ · Then shalt thou say in thy heart: 'Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have been bereaved of my children, and am solitary, an exile, and wandering to and fro?↗ (Prophets ISA.49.21, JPS 1917)↗ · I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the enclosure of their heart; and there will I devour them like a lioness; the wild beast shall tear them.↗ (Prophets HOS.13.8, JPS 1917)↗

bereavement — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) The loss of a close relative or friend because they have died.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The sadness and time after such a loss.↗ Example: She was off school because of a family bereavement.↗ · The school offers bereavement support to pupils.↗ · After a bereavement, it's normal to feel very sad.↗ · He took bereavement leave from work.↗ · Talking to someone helps after a bereavement.↗ · We sent a card to show we cared about their bereavement.↗ · They repay me evil for good; bereavement is come to my soul.↗ (Writings PSA.35.12, JPS 1917)↗ · The children of thy bereavement shall yet say in thine ears: 'The place is too strait for me; give place to me that I may dwell.'↗ (Prophets ISA.49.20, JPS 1917)↗

bereft — Everyday, meaning 1: Left without something important, such as a loved one or a friend.↗ Example: The king was bereft of his only daughter.↗ · The dog, bereft of its owner, waited at the gate.↗ · And her gates shall lament and mourn; and utterly bereft she shall sit upon the ground.↗ (Prophets ISA.3.26, JPS 1917)↗ · The stout-hearted are bereft of sense, they sleep their sleep; and none of the men of might have found their hands.↗ (Writings PSA.76.6, JPS 1917)↗

beret — Everyday, meaning 1: A round, soft, flat hat without a brim, often made of wool or felt.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A beret worn as part of a uniform, especially by soldiers (for example «the Green Berets»).↗ Example: She wore a red beret to school on a cold day.↗ · The artist in the picture had a black beret.↗ · Soldiers in the parade wore green berets.↗ · My nan knitted me a beret.↗ · In our French play, Tom wore a beret and a stripy top.↗ · The beret sat on the side of his head.↗ · The Scouts wear blue berets.↗

beriberi — Everyday, meaning 1: An illness caused by not having enough vitamin B1 (thiamine) in food; it can weaken the muscles, nerves and heart.↗ Example: Beriberi is caused by too little vitamin B1.↗ · Sailors who ate only white rice sometimes got beriberi.↗ · Eating whole grains helps prevent beriberi.↗ · Our science sheet listed scurvy, rickets and beriberi.↗ · A doctor found that brown rice cured beriberi in chickens.↗ · Beriberi is rare today in countries with varied food.↗

berith — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A Hebrew word meaning "covenant," a solemn agreement.↗ Example: And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard thereof, they entered into the hold of the house of El-berith.↗ (Prophets JDG.9.46, JPS 1917)↗ · And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light fellows, who followed him.↗ (Prophets JDG.9.4, JPS 1917)↗ · And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel again went astray after the Baalim, and made Baal-berith their god.↗ (Prophets JDG.8.33, JPS 1917)↗

berlin — Everyday, meaning 1: (a name) Berlin is the capital city of Germany and its largest city.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In history, Berlin was divided into East and West Berlin by the Berlin Wall during the Cold War; the Wall came down and Germany became one country again.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (rare) A berlin (berline) is an old kind of four-wheeled carriage.↗ Example: Berlin is the capital of Germany.↗ · The Berlin Wall split the city in two.↗ · People danced on the Berlin Wall the night it opened.↗ · We saw a piece of the Berlin Wall in a museum.↗ · The Brandenburg Gate is a famous sight in Berlin.↗ · Many families were separated when the wall was built across Berlin.↗ · Berlin has more bridges than Venice.↗ · Our class wrote postcards from an imaginary trip to Berlin.↗

berry — Everyday, meaning 1: A berry is a small round juicy fruit with seeds, like a strawberry, blueberry or raspberry.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In science, a berry is a fruit made from one flower with seeds inside its soft flesh; by that rule, grapes, tomatoes and bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In old dialect, to berry someone means to bury them in the ground.↗ Example: We picked blackberries along the path.↗ · Never eat wild berries unless an adult says they're safe.↗ · Blueberries are tiny blue berries.↗ · Birds love the red berries on the holly bush.↗ · I had berries and yoghurt for breakfast.↗ · Some berries are poisonous.↗ · Strawberries have their seeds on the outside.↗ · Bears eat berries in late summer.↗

berth — Everyday, meaning 1: A bed or bunk for sleeping on a ship or train.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A place where a ship is tied up at a harbour.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (phrase) «give a wide berth to» means keep well away from.↗ Example: The sailor gave me a berth in the cabin.↗ · Give a wide berth to the bully.↗ · The ship sailed into its berth at the harbour.↗

beryl — Everyday, meaning 1: A hard mineral that forms crystals, found in many colours; green beryl is emerald and blue-green beryl is aquamarine.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (a name) Beryl is an old-fashioned girl's name.↗ Example: Emerald is a green kind of beryl.↗ · The museum had a large beryl crystal.↗ · Aquamarine is a blue beryl.↗ · Great-aunt Beryl knitted me a scarf.↗ · Beryl contains the element beryllium.↗ · The jeweller polished the beryl.↗ · and the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper; they shall be inclosed in gold in their settings.↗ (Torah EXO.28.20, JPS 1917)↗ · And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper; they were inclosed in fittings of gold in their settings.↗ (Torah EXO.39.13, JPS 1917)↗ · His hands are as rods of gold set with beryl; his body is as polished ivory overlaid with sapphires.↗ (Writings SNG.5.14, JPS 1917)↗ · And I looked, and behold four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub, and another wheel beside another cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone.↗ (Prophets EZK.10.9, JPS 1917)↗ · The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl; and they four had one likeness; and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel.↗ (Prophets EZK.1.16, JPS 1917)↗

beseech — Everyday, meaning 1: To beg someone earnestly and with great feeling.↗ Example: The villagers beseeched the king for rain.↗ · «Please help me,» she beseeched.↗ · And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying: 'Heal her now, O God, I beseech Thee.'↗ (Torah NUM.12.13, JPS 1917)↗ · We beseech Thee, O LORD, save now!↗ (Writings PSA.118.25, JPS 1917)↗ · We beseech Thee, O LORD, make us now to prosper!↗ (Writings PSA.118.25, JPS 1917)↗ · Accept, I beseech Thee, the freewill-offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me Thine ordinances.↗ (Writings PSA.119.108, JPS 1917)↗

beseeching — Everyday, meaning 1: Asking in a begging, pleading way.↗ Example: «Won't you open the door?» cried Pinocchio in a beseeching voice.↗ · His beseeching eyes begged for food.↗

beset — Everyday, meaning 1: To be beset by problems, dangers or worries is to have many of them troubling you from all sides.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old) To beset someone is to surround and attack them.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (Old) To be beset with something is to be decorated or set with it, such as jewels.↗ Example: The expedition was beset by storms.↗ · Mole felt beset by eyes and whispers in the Wild Wood.↗ · The team has been beset by injuries.↗ · Travellers were beset by robbers on the old road.↗ · The project was beset with problems from the start.↗ · She was beset by doubts.↗ · Her godmother only just touched her with her wand, and, at the same instant, her clothes were turned into cloth of gold and silver, all beset with jewels.↗ · Many bulls have encompassed me; strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.↗ (Writings PSA.22.13, JPS 1917)↗ · Therefore the law is slacked, and right doth never go forth; for the wicked doth beset the righteous; therefore right goeth forth perverted.↗ (Prophets HAB.1.4, JPS 1917)↗ · And let them not say to their heart — I remember all their wickedness; now their own doings have beset them about, they are before My face.↗ (Prophets HOS.7.2, JPS 1917)↗

besides — Everyday, meaning 1: Besides means as well as, in addition to.↗ e.g. Besides apples, we bought pears.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Besides means except, apart from, in negative sentences and questions.↗ e.g. Nobody besides Tom came.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: As an adverb at the start of a sentence, besides means also, and here is another reason.↗ Example: Besides football, I also play tennis.↗ · Who else is coming besides your cousin?↗ · Nobody besides me knew the answer.↗ · I don't want to go out; besides, it's raining.↗ · Besides being clever, she is very kind.↗ · What do you like to eat besides pizza?↗ · Tom has 4 pets besides his dog, so he has 5 pets in all.↗ · Besides, Kotick was a white seal.↗ · Now they that died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides them that died about the matter of Korah.↗ (Torah NUM.16.49, JPS 1917)↗ · And the meal-offering was presented; and he filled his hand therefrom, and made it smoke upon the altar, besides the burnt-offering of the morning.↗ (Torah LEV.9.17, JPS 1917)↗ · but if thou hast gone aside, being under thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee besides thy husband — (Torah NUM.5.20, JPS 1917)↗ · But Jehoshaphat said: 'Is there not here besides a prophet of the LORD, that we might inquire of him?'↗ (Prophets 1KI.22.7, JPS 1917)↗ · Then I separated twelve of the chiefs of the priests, besides Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them, (Writings EZR.8.24, JPS 1917)↗ · Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, besides the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites; (Prophets 1KI.11.1, JPS 1917)↗