bewhore
English
Etymology
Verb
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- (transitive) To make a whore of; prostitute; treat as a whore.
- 1975, Eric Rothstein, Systems of order and inquiry in later eighteenth-century fiction:
- 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.
- 2004, Ellen Kushner, Thomas the Rhymer:
- They've asked her the name of him that bewhored her, but she will not speak.
- (transitive, archaic) To call or pronounce a whore.