benegro

English edit

Etymology edit

From be- +‎ negro.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /bɪˈniːɡɹəʊ/

Verb edit

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

(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