Usually means: Cursing someone or something vehemently.
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  1. beshrewing: Merriam-Webster
  2. beshrewing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. beshrewing: Vocabulary.com
  4. beshrewing: Wiktionary
  5. beshrewing: Dictionary.com
  6. beshrewing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (beshrew)

verb:  (transitive, archaic) To invoke or wish evil upon; to curse.
verb:  (transitive) An imperative uttered as a mildly imprecatory or merely expletive introductory exclamation.
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