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Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary
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bemire
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synonyms: bemoil ???
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Definition:to cover or stain with mud
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I waded through with some difficulty, and one of the footmen wiped me as clean as he could with his handkerchief, for I was filthily bemired;
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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what could I put on? Only my damp and bemired apparel; in which I had slept on the ground and fallen in the marsh.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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