behell

To torture as with pains of hell; give hell (to).

Verb

  1. To torture as with pains of hell; give hell (to).
    • Did behell and rack him ― Hewyt.
    • Thus a mechanic who feels himself electrically influenced speaks of "brain-kilowatt-hours", or a resistive patient talks of "behelling" injections. - 1936, Frederick Walker Mott, Archives of neurology and psychiatry:
    • I have seen them behell a saint for ignorantly drinking an alcoholic drink. Beshrew the sanctimonious riffraff! - 2006, Philangi Dasa, Swedenborg the Buddhist:

Origin

From be- + hell.

Forms

behells behelling behelled