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beclaw

beclaw verb: to scratch or tear all over with claws or nails.

Verb

beclaw (third-person singular simple present beclaws, present participle beclawing, simple past and past participle beclawed)

  1. (transitive) To scratch or tear all over with claws or nails.

Forms of beclaw

third-person singular presentbeclaws
present participlebeclawing
past participlebeclawed
pastbeclawed

Origin of beclaw

From be- (“around, about, all over”) + claw.

Questions about beclaw

What does beclaw mean?
Beclaw means to scratch or tear all over with claws or nails.
What part of speech is beclaw?
Beclaw is a verb.
What is the past tense of beclaw?
The past tense of beclaw is beclawed.

Words near beclaw in the dictionary

  1. beclarts
  2. beclasp
  3. beclasped
  4. beclasping
  5. beclasps
  6. beclaw
  7. beclawed
  8. beclawing
  9. Beclean
  10. beclepe
  11. beclepes

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