b'lieve

See also: blieve

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bliːv/

Verb

b'lieve (third-person singular simple present b'lieves, present participle b'lieving, simple past and past participle b'lieved)

1. Pronunciation spelling of believe.
   • 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXIII, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 258:

     I b’lieve it’s better’n to be a pirate.

Anagrams

• belive, beveil, bevile