bestream

bestream means to stream around, about, or all over; flood.

Etymology

From be- + stream. Cognate with German beströmen (“to pervade”).

verb

To stream around, about, or all over; flood.e.g.“His eyes bestreamed with tears, his large heart quaking [...]” — 1858, Henry Green, A Manchester book:
To flow in a stream; stream down.e.g.“Merchant plays you with a smile beguiling, Wife beguiles you with her tears bestreaming, [...]” — 1925, Milivoy Stoyan Stanoyevich, Slavonic nations of yesterday and today:
To drench; mark by streams of.e.g.“[...] and, from using only moderate exercise, I am so bestreamed with perspiration as to make it necessary to change my clothes four or five times in the course of the day: [...]” — 1816, George Pinckard, Notes on the West Indies:
To cover or be covered in; adorn; wear.e.g.“Gear, such as Orchomenus bestreams or Thebae of Egypt, Where lies in palace-hall most wealth, whose gates are an hundred, And steeds, and chariots, and fivescore troops are in each one [...]” — 1899, Homer, Alexander Pope, Philip Gentner, The Iliad of Homer:

Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).

By meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.

overstream 74% match — To stream or flow over. vs bestream →
distream 71% match — To flow. vs bestream →
beflood 69% match — To flood around or about; flood all over; inundate. vs bestream →
streamingly 69% match — So as to stream or flow. vs bestream →
astream 68% match — Streaming, flowing (of a liquid, object blown by wind, light, sound). vs bestream →
instream 67% match — To flow or stream in; flow or stream into. vs bestream →
restream 67% match — To stream again or differently (in various senses). vs bestream →
outstream 65% match — To stream outward. vs bestream →