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English
Etymology
From be- + small.
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besmall (third-person singular simple present besmalls, present participle besmalling, simple past and past participle besmalled)
- (transitive, rare, nonstandard) To make small; (figurative) to make as though small.
1974, Pacific islands monthly:And loneliness balked my pride, my innate pride, my integral native being, besmalling me all the more, until I couldn't remember myself the way I did last year and the years before.
1984, Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, Bikmaus:"Weariness too faltered my conscience . . . besmalling me."
2000, Ed. Manmohan K. Bhatnagar, Twentieth Century Literature in English:The besmalled position shocks Tusker to fell sick for a long time and finally die when he is asked to vacate the Lodge.
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