becarpet
becarpet verb: to cover like a carpet.
Verb
becarpet (third-person singular simple present becarpets, present participle becarpeting, simple past and past participle becarpeted)
- To cover like a carpet.
- And outside was the garden, with its lemon-trees growing in vast jars-like the jars of Knossos—but marked with Barberini bees; its white and red camellias becarpeting the soft grass with their fallen petals; […]1918, Harper's Monthly Magazine, volume 137, page 665
- The billet-village decks its glades / With leafy poplar-colonnades / And apple-orchards where the bloom / Makes every tree a great mushroom / Of petals pink as summer dawn, / Soon to becarpet all the lawn […]1933, Leonard Barnes, Youth at Arms, page 9
Forms of becarpet
| third-person singular present | becarpets |
|---|---|
| present participle | becarpeting |
| past participle | becarpeted |
| past | becarpeted |
Origin of becarpet
From be- + carpet.
Questions about becarpet
- What does becarpet mean?
- Becarpet means to cover like a carpet.
- What part of speech is becarpet?
- Becarpet is a verb.
- What is the past tense of becarpet?
- The past tense of becarpet is becarpeted.
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