Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bedunce

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bedunce
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To treat as, or reduce to, a dunce; to make stupid.

Archaic; Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"After he has sufficiently bedunced us through several pages, he at last has the tenderness to answer to our particular objections, and that with sufficient perplexity."
"[…] reamsful of financial or statistical calculations; the figures of which, when duly emitted in the House, sufficed to bedunce the brains of five hundred wiser men; […]"

Etymology

From be- + dunce.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: be

Usage

Inflected Forms

bedunces (present, singular) beduncing (participle, present) bedunced (participle, past) bedunced (past)

Questions

What does bedunce mean?: To treat as, or reduce to, a dunce; to make stupid.
Where does bedunce come from?: From be- + dunce.

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