benegro

English

Etymology

From be- +‎ negro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɪˈniːɡɹəʊ/

Verb

benegro (third-person singular simple present benegroes, present participle benegroing, simple past and past participle benegroed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To render dark; blacken.
   • 1650, Jean Baptiste van Helmont, Walter Charleton, A Ternary of Paradoxes:

     when the tangible darkness that benegroed the horizon of Ægypt