verb
- to curse or invoke evil upon
Usage: archaic
Examples
- Beshrew me if I tell a lie!
- The old woman would beshrew anyone who crossed her path.
- Beshrew his treacherous heart for betraying us.
- She muttered under her breath, ‘Beshrew the day I met him.’
- The playwright had his character cry out, ‘Beshrew this foul weather!’
- In Shakespeare’s time, characters would often beshrew their enemies.