behell

verb

behell

verb

Etymology From be- + hell.

1

Ambitransitive To torture as with pains of hell; give hell (to).

Did behell and rack him ― Hewyt.
Thus a mechanic who feels himself electrically influenced speaks of "brain-kilowatt-hours", or a resistive patient talks of "behelling" injections.1936, Frederick Walker Mott, Archives of neurology and psychiatry:

1 more example

I have seen them behell a saint for ignorantly drinking an alcoholic drink. Beshrew the sanctimonious riffraff!2006, Philangi Dasa, Swedenborg the Buddhist:

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