BEGONE

Etymology 1

Interjection

begone

Expressing a desire or a command for someone or something to go away.

Etymology 2

Inflected forms.

Verb

begone

past participle of bego

Anagrams

• engobe

Source: Wiktionary


Be*gone", interj. Etym: [Be, v. i. + gone, p. p.]

Definition: Go away; depart; get you gone.

Be*gone", p. p. Etym: [OE. begon, AS. bigan; pref. be- + gan to go.]

Definition: Surrounded; furnished; beset; environed (as in woe-begone). [Obs.] Gower. Chaucer.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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