be-
- : added to other verbs
- around: besprinkle, beset
- completely, thoroughly, excessively: used as an intensifier: bedeck, besmear
- away: used as a privative: bereave, betake
- about: used as a transitive prefix: bethink, bemoan
- : added to nouns and, sometimes, adjectives
- make: besot, bedim
- furnish with, cover with, affect by, treat as: befriend, bedizen, becloud
- covered with, furnished with, furnished with to excess: added to past participles in -ed: bemedaled, bewhiskered
See be- in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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