examine, inspect, discover; contemplate, peruse, scrutinize; consider, take cognizance of. -interj. 2. look! look at that! ecce! beholden, adj. 1. obligated, obliged, indebted, bound, owing; grateful, thankful.
2. answerable, accountable, responsible, liable, chargeable, amenable. beholder, n. spectator, watcher, viewer, observer, witness, eyewitness; onlooker, bystander; inspector, examiner. behoof, n. advantage, benefit, interest, good; wellbeing, Archaic, weal, welfare; betterment, improvement, furtherance, advancement, promotion; gain, profit, help, aid, service, avail, behoove, v. 1. be necessary, be essential, be requisite, be needful, be indispensable; be obligatory, be incumbent upon, be required of, be binding on, be bound; be proper, be due, be right, be correct; be suitable, be appropriate, be fitting, be meet; befit, become, beseem, suit, conduce.
2. be worthwhile, be advantageous, be gainful, be well, be to one's interests or advantage; be helpful, be useful, be beneficial. being, n. 1. existence, Latin, esse, life, living, animateness, animation; vital force, vital principle, elan vital, life blood, vitality, life force; actuality, reality, presence; ubiquity, omnipresence; truth, verity, veracity, fact.
2. substance, entity, Metaphysics, ens, principle; nature, essence, spirit, quiddity, haeccity, quintessence, essentialness; individuality, personality, character, temperament; particularity, singularity, peculiarity.
3. creature, beast, animal, thing; human being, human, person, fellow, man, earthling; body, soul, mortal, sentient; individual, personnage, one, someone, somebody, Archaic, wight.
4. Being God, the Absolute, the Creator, the Almighty, the Supreme Being. belabor, v. 1. beset, besiege, pelt, bombard, Sl. strafe; torment, beleaguer, harass, harry, hector, badger, hound, pester, bother, molest, be a thorn in [s.o.'s] side, Brit, chivy.
2. agonize, labor, toil, strain, strive, exercise oneself, overwork oneself, exhaust oneself; pore over, worry over, trouble oneself over, lose sleep over, Sl. beat one's brains out; overwork, beat to death, belated, adj. 1. tardy, late, behindhand, behind time, overdue; unpunctual, backward, slow.
2. delayed, detained, retarded; postponed, put off, deferred; adjourned, suspended, prorogued, remanded.
3. obsolete, out-of-date, archaic, behind the times, past, extinct; old-fashioned, oldfangled, outmoded, disused; forgotten, outdated, antiquated, antique, ancient, pass£, old. belch, v. 1. eruct, Inf. burp, eructate; hiccup, hiccough.
2. eject, emit, issue, disembogue, pour out, outpour; throw out, expel, expectorate, spit; spew, discharge, vent, send forth, shoot, burst, blast; gush, hurl, blow, jet; spurt, squirt, spout, stream, Geol. extravasate; vomit, heave, retch, keck, disgorge; cast up, throw up, cough up, egest, puke, Sl. upchuck.
-n. 3. eructation, Inf. burp, hiccup, hiccough, beldam, n. hag, crone, harridan, witch; vixen, shrew, tartar, virago, scold, Xanthippe, termagent, spitfire; old woman, Inf. granny, beleaguer, v. surround, encompass, circumscribe; environ, ring, encircle, circle, begird, girdle, engird; confine, hem in, gird, hedge, limit, bound; enclose, ensphere, contain, corral, fence, picket, pen, box in, shut in, blockade, block; siege, besiege, assail, bombard, invest.