Definition of "be-" []

• Completely; thoroughly; excessively. Used as an intensive: bemuse. (prefix)
• On; around; over: besmear. (prefix)
• About; to: bespeak. (prefix)
• Used to form transitive verbs from nouns, adjectives, and intransitive verbs, as: (prefix)
• To make; cause to become: bedim. (prefix)

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• "I knew who my heroes were and would cling to them with all my might, my surviving legacies of what I could be- a superior id in underoos."
• "Since I'd seen it before, I knew that while the Hope Diamond is rather big for a cut diamond, and especially for a rare blue diamond, it's not as big as most people imagine it will be- it's about the size of a walnut."
• "If this is a political strategy, and he seems to be-"