bego

About 0.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To go about; encompass; surround; beset, surround with hostile intent; to overrun.
2. verb To clothe, dress.
3. verb To affect, usually as a good or bad influence, or as a circumstance.

   He was woe begone.

4. noun That which besets, surrounds, compasses, or affects; situation; circumstance.
5. verb To go away, to disappear.

Similar words

behedge beleaguer besiege beset begird environ umbego besit umbecast belie

Often followed by

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