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beclart

beclart verb: to besmear; bedaub; bemire; smear all over with dirt.

Verb

beclart (third-person singular simple present beclarts, present participle beclarting, simple past and past participle beclarted)

  1. (UK, dialectal, transitive) To besmear; bedaub; bemire; smear all over with dirt.
    Synonyms:
    bedirty, clat, soil, assoil, bedaub, imbrue (especially with blood), bedizen, befile, befilth, befoul

Synonyms of beclart

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Forms of beclart

third-person singular presentbeclarts
present participlebeclarting
past participlebeclarted
pastbeclarted

Origin of beclart

From Middle English biclarten, equivalent to be- + clart. Cognate with Scots beclairt (“to soil, splash or cover with filth”).

Words formed from beclart

  • beclarted

Questions about beclart

What does beclart mean?
Beclart means to besmear; bedaub; bemire; smear all over with dirt.
What part of speech is beclart?
Beclart is a verb.
What is the past tense of beclart?
The past tense of beclart is beclarted.

Words near beclart in the dictionary

  1. beclamouring
  2. beclamours
  3. beclams
  4. beclap
  5. beclapping
  6. beclart
  7. beclarting
  8. beclarts
  9. beclasp
  10. beclasped
  11. beclasping

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