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bewander

verb

Etymology

From be- (“around, about”) + wander. Compare Saterland Frisian bewonderje, Middle Dutch bewanderen, German bewandern.

  1. inherited from *wandarōn✻ — “to wander”
  2. inherited from wandrian — “to wander, roam, fly around, hover; change; stray, err”
  3. inherited from wandren
  4. prefixed as bewander — “be + wander”

Definitions

  1. To wander around or about

    To wander around or about; roam.

    • Or 'twas wont to be so, / Just a few years ago, / At the time when Jack used to bewander to know, / That a Corporal's Guard Left the Old Barrack […]
    • The spring and the winter came unsought into every man's life, not as they come to-day, wayfarers bewandered among the house-tops, feebly whispering of unknown things in far salubrious lands, […]
    • […] and anon the case became grievous to her and she set out to bewander the regions saying, "Haply shall Allah reunite me with my children and my husband!"

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA