Verb transitive and intransitive.

MEANING 1

To examine, scrutinize, peer at.

Example of use

1.     Mu babeebeete ilyo tabalayamba kulemba amashindano, MEANING:  You scrutinize them before they start writing the examinations.

2.     Mu kubeebeeta emukutobolwa, MEANING:  In scrutinizing everything, one gets something in one’s eyes (i.e. if you insist too much on something, you get into trouble).

MEANING 2

To be wide awake

Example of use

Camfufyo tulo, nabeebeeta bushiku bonse, MEANING:  It drove away my sleep, I was wide awake the whole night.

OTHER RELATED WORDS/USES/SOURCES/FUNCTIONS

PASSIVE: –beebeetwa

APPLICATIVE: -beebeetela (PASSIVE: –beebeetelwa)