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befilmed

befilmed adjective: covered with a film. Also the simple past and past participle of befilm.

Adjective

befilmed (comparative more befilmed, superlative most befilmed)

  1. (archaic, poetic, rare) Covered with a film.
    • So Seers on the Earth, through shaded eyes / Befilmed with sense, have seen dense shadows rise, […]1854, Thomas Lake Harris, An Epic of the Starry Heaven, →OCLC
    • And oft without upon the stretching plain, / All else befilm’d with vapours and black night […]1892, Thomas John Hardy, Asdrufel: A Soul's Episode, →OCLC

Also used as

befilmed is also the simple past and past participle of befilm.

Forms of befilmed

comparativemore befilmed
superlativemost befilmed

Questions about befilmed

What does befilmed mean?
Befilmed means covered with a film.
What part of speech is befilmed?
Befilmed is an adjective.

Words near befilmed in the dictionary

  1. befiled
  2. befiles
  3. befiling
  4. befilleted
  5. befilm
  6. befilmed
  7. befilming
  8. befilms
  9. befilth
  10. befilthed
  11. befilthing

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