English
Etymology
Old English besprengan|besprenġan, corresponding to be- + sprenge.

Pronunciation
IPA|/bɪ�spr�nʤ/

Verb
en-verb|besprenges|besprenging|besprent

1. (obsolete except as past participle adjective) To sprinkle or scatter with.

#:*1973: his ample mush was pleated with fat, wormed with the great pox and so besprent with whelks, bubukles and burst capillaries that it seemed like a contour map of the Trossachs. � Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me (Penguin 2001, p. 78)

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