bewhore

verb — 2 senses

bewhore

verb

/bɪˈhɔː(ɹ)/

Etymology From be- + whore.

1

To make a whore of; prostitute; treat as a whore.

  • We move to higher social realms in the next chapter, in which Harrison refuses to bewhore his conscience to a peer by supporting Colonel Trompington for parliament, this being the price for favor towards Booth.1975, Eric Rothstein, Systems of order and inquiry in later eighteenth-century fiction:
  • They've asked her the name of him that bewhored her, but she will not speak.2004, Ellen Kushner, Thomas the Rhymer:
2

Archaic To call or pronounce a whore.

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