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becleping

becleping is the present participle and gerund of beclepe.

Meaning of beclepe

Verb

beclepe (third-person singular simple present beclepes, present participle becleping, simple past and past participle beclept or becleped)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To complain against; indict; accuse.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To call upon; address; accost.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To address as; call; name.
  4. (obsolete, transitive) To summon to a higher court; appeal.
  5. (obsolete, transitive) To appeal against; object to; disapprove.

Questions about becleping

What is becleping the present participle and gerund of?
Becleping is the present participle and gerund of beclepe.

Words near becleping in the dictionary

  1. beclawed
  2. beclawing
  3. Beclean
  4. beclepe
  5. beclepes
  6. becleping
  7. beclept
  8. becliconazole
  9. beclimb
  10. beclimbed
  11. beclimbing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: becleping (page history and authors); beclepe (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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